At Ras-el-Ain there are at present about 1,500 women and children, the only survivors out of several thousands, who, together with their husbands and fathers, were deported from Kharput and the surrounding country. Among these 1,500 persons there is not a single male over the age of 10-12 years. These people, healthy or sick, are left lying from morning till evening in the sun without food and without protection against a temperature of 109 1/2 degrees in the shade, and they are in the arbitrary power of their guards. Mr. L.-- who during the last month had, in conversation with me, used the expression "Armenian rabble"--spoke literally as follows: "I am not a man who is easily touched, but after what I have seen at Ras-el-Ain I cannot keep the tears away. I did not think it possible that such acts of ill-treatment and violence, outraging all rules of humanity, could be perpetrated in our century." A "Tchaoush" (Sergeant-Major) of the name of Suleiman took 18 women and girls and sold them to Arabs, charging 2-3 mejidiés (6s. 4d.--9s. 6d.) for each of them. A Turkish police-commissary said to me: "We have lost all count of the numbers of women and girls who were taken away by the Arabs and Kurds, either by force or with the connivance of the Government. This time we have carried out our operations against the Armenians according to our heart's desire; not one out of ten has been left among the living." While I am writing this down, my wife has returned from a walk into the town, and reports tearfully that she met a convoy of over 800 Armenians, all bare-footed, with torn clothes, carrying their scanty possessions on their backs, together with their babies. In Besné the whole population, consisting of 1,800 souls, principally women and children, were expatriated; it was alleged that they were to be deported to Ourfa. When they reached the Göksu, a tributary of the Euphrates, they were compelled to take their clothes off, and thereupon they were all massacred and thrown into the river. On a single day latterly 170 corpses were observed drifting down the Euphrates, on other days 50-60. Mr. A., an engineer, saw 40 corpses in the course of one ride. Those which are stranded on the river bank are devoured by the dogs, those on sandbanks in mid-stream by the vultures.