------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THE TREATMENT OF ARMENIANS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DOCUMENTS PRESENTED TO VISCOUNT GREY OF FALLODON SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS WITH A PREFACE BY VISCOUNT BRYCE LAID BEFORE THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AS AN OFFICIAL PAPER AND NOW PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION HODDER AND STOUGHTON ST. PAUL’ S HOUSE, WARWICK SQUARE, LONDON AND AT NEW YORK AND TORONTO MCMXVI TABLE OF CONTENTS. ------- _The titles are italicised in the case of documents which relate merely to the condition of refugees in Egypt and Caucasia, and not to the events in Turkey and N.W. Persia of which these refugees had been the victims._ PAGE Map of Districts affected Frontispiece Correspondence between Viscount Grey of Fallodon and Viscount Bryce xv. Preface by Viscount Bryce xxi. Letter from Mr. H.A.L. Fisher, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University, to Viscount Bryce xxix. Letter from Prof. Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, to Viscount Bryce xxxi. Letter from Mr. Moorfield Storey, ex-President of the American Bar Association, to Viscount Bryce xxxii. Letter from Four German Missionaries to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Berlin xxxiii. Memorandum by the Editor of the Documents xxxv. I.—GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS. 1 1. Despatch from Mr. Henry Wood, Correspondent of the American “United Press” at Constantinople; published in the American Press, 14th August, 1915 2