[2] “Three American missionaries called: they had been settled for several years in Anatolia, and had succeeded in making some converts amidst the Armenians, but they had not in any one instance induced a Mohammedan to change his faith. One of them observed that the Turks were by no means a cruel race.” (Col. F. Burnaby: “On Horseback through Asia Minor.”) [3] “Odysseus”: “Turkey in Europe.” [4] Extract from Sir Henry Layard’s (H.M. Ambassador at Constantinople) despatches. [5] I was told some ghastly details, but I doubt the veracity of them, as they were related to me by a town Armenian. [6] These would not be so called if committed by any other troops than those of the Turkish Army. [7] “Forty years in Constantinople.” [8] He has since increased this figure to 1,000,000. [9] The _Times_, in a leading article, adds the further information that “The Italian Consul, who reports this enormity, saw it done with his own eyes.” [10] “Everything had been carefully prepared in Asia and in the Press of Europe and America before the Armenian outbreak (1895-96) to boom a second Bulgaria.” (Sidney Whitman: “Turkish Memories.”) [11] On December 31st, 1913, the Special Correspondent of _The Times_ at Constantinople warned his readers that there was great danger of the introduction into Asia Minor of Macedonian methods with band-warfare and all its attendant horrors, and in February, 1914, the Press reported that a large quantity of contraband ammunition had been seized by the gendarmerie in the vilayet of Bitlis.