6. Testimony of eye-witnesses, published in the Boulogne-sur-Mer _Telegramme_, September 17; Paris _Temps_, September 15; Limoges _Courrier du Centre_, September 15; _Tribune de Genève_, September 4 and 24, October 14; _Journal de Genève_, October 13 and 24; _Gazette de Lausanne_, October 24; New York _Evening Post_, October 18. Résumés and editorial comments in Manchester _Guardian_, August 16 and October 26; London _Times_, October 8; _Frankfurter Zeitung_, October 9; _Paris-Midi_, October 17. All these dates, of course, are in 1915. 7. Circular letters of various dates from July 6 to October 22, 1915, sent out by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, Mass., which are signed by James L. Barton. 8. A number of as yet unpublished personal letters. For obvious reasons, I cannot give the names of the writers, and the places from which they were written. 9. Personal conversations with persons of unimpeachable integrity and unquestioned authority, who have returned between September 15 and November 20 from Constantinople and Asia Minor. Their names must of necessity be withheld at this moment. FOOTNOTE: [1] I do not mean by this statement to deny that the educated Armenians, just as every other people under the yoke of another race, have not longed, in their most intimate sentiments, for the day when national aspirations would be realized. But, the Armenians are above all a practical people, and they did not look for what they knew was impossible of realization. In the correspondence concerning Armenian people in the Chancelleries of the Great Powers and in the archives of the Sublime Porte, _the question has always been to obtain reforms that would secure for the Armenians only those privileges and only that measure of security and freedom, to which they had the right as Ottoman subjects to aspire_. In 1913, the Powers, _among whom was Germany_, proposed to the Turkish Government a plan for reforms in Asia Minor, which was accepted and decreed by Turkey, but which was not put into execution. Up to the time of this terrible crime of the past few months, the Armenians demanded, and were glad to have obtained in Turkey, only those reforms that Turkey had agreed herself to put into effect. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Underlined text is surrounded by equals signs: =underline=. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.