DEPORTATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: Orders from Constantinople--German Influence--No Exceptions to be Made--Reasons for Scheme of Transportation--A Procession of Doomed Victims--Unparalleled Savagery--Character of Armenian People--Turks Encourage Armenian Organizations which, Later, They Brand as “Revolutionary”--“The Blackest Page in Modern History”--Five Hundred Men Imprisoned in an Armenian Church--Awaiting Orders to March into Exile--Allowed to Take but Few Possessions--Searching Out Armenian Names--The Procession as Seen from a College Compound--A Hopeless Journey of a Thousand Miles--Forced to Abandon Food and Bedding on the Road--Uncertainty of the Fate of Loved Ones--The Minds of Some Become Unbalanced--Boys and Girls Sold to Mohammedans to be Reared in that Faith--Two Girls Sold for Eighty Cents--A Loyal Priest of Ninety--Women and Girls Carried off to an Unknown Fate--At the Euphrates River--A Faithful Teacher Accompanies Her School Girls on Their Way to Exile--Extracts from Her Letters--“Getting Accustomed to Being Robbed”--Exiles from Tocat--Men Tied Together for Execution Overtaking Those Who Had Fallen by the Way from Former Deportations--Not Allowed to Go Further--No Later Word from Her Companions--Dual Orders Issued from Constantinople: One to be Made Public, the Other to Deal with Armenians. XX. CAMPS OF REFUGE, 1915-17 332 Physical Suffering Compared with the Deeper Anguish of Mind and Heart--Why the Young Turks Continued Their Barbarity--An American Missionary’s Experience--Martyrdom of First Christian Century Compared with Scenes in 1915--An American Woman’s Appeal Unheeded--Absurdity of Turkish Excuse--Inefficiency of Armenian Defense--Cilician Armenians Disarmed by Misrepresentation--Evacuated Homes Given to Mohammedan Refugees--More than 20,000 Armenians Forced to Emigrate from One Province--An Almost Miraculous Escape--“_Christians in Distress. Rescue!_”--The Third Stage of the Turk’s Plan of Extermination: “Agricultural Colonies”--Most Undesirable Sites Chosen--A Thousand Families with only Fifty Grown Men--Unwholesome Climatic Influences--Scenes in the Refugee Camps--American Embassy Refused Permission to Carry Help--The Sufferings of Shelterless Exiles--The Unburied Dead--Epidemic of Typhoid Fever--Exhausted Exiles Driven Forward at Point of Soldiers’ Bayonets--What a Missionary Saw--Distributing Bread to the Hungry--Children Sold to Prevent Starvation--580 Buried in One Day--A Town in the Desert--Instant Death Preferred to Long Suffering--A Protest from German Missionaries--Heart-rending Scenes--Massacres Still Going On--Late News--Present Conditions--Accessories to Turks’ Crime--U.S.A. Entering into the Conflict. Encouraging Signs--God rules. MAP 352 A CRY FROM ARMENIA By ELLEN M. MITCHELL