heir resignations were accepted, but they were both secretly
assassinated. I investigated this matter carefully, and ascertained that
the name of the Baghdad Arab was Sabat Bey El-Sueidi, but I could not
learn that of the Albanian, which I much regret, as they performed a
noble act for which they should be commemorated in history....[K]

[Footnote K: The writer here describes how a Turkish judge (kadi), to
whom the office of Kaimakam was entrusted after the murder of Sabat Bey,
boasted in conversation that he had killed four Armenians with his own
hand. "They were brave men," he said, "having no fear of
death."--TRANSLATOR.]

AN ARMENIAN BETRAYS HIS NATION.--[L] ...

[Footnote L: The author tells the story of an Armenian of Diarbekir who
gave information to the police against his own people, disclosing their
hiding places. He saw him walking about the streets with an insolent
demeanor, giving himself the airs of a person of great importance. He
considers that such a traitor to his nation deserves the worst form of
death.--TRANSLATOR.]

THE SULTAN'S ORDER.--Whilst I was in prison, a Turkish Commissioner of
Police used to come to see a friend of his, who was also imprisoned. One
day when I and this friend were together, the Commissioner came, and, in
the course of conversation about the Armenians and their fate, he
described to us how he had slaughtered them, and how a number had taken
refuge in a cave outside the city, and he had brought them out and
killed two of them himself. His friend said to him: "Have you no fear of
God? Whence have you the right to take life in defiance of God's law?"
He replied: "It was the Sultan's order; the Sultan's order is the order
of God, and its fulfilment is a duty."

ARMENIAN DEATH STATISTICS.--At the end of August, 1915, I was visited in
prison by one of my Diarbekir colleagues, who was an intimate friend of
one of those charged with the conduct of the Armenian massacres. We
spoke of the Armenian question, and he told me that, in Diarbekir alone,
570,000 had been destroyed, these being people from other Vilayets as
well as those belonging to Diarbekir itself.

If to this we add those killed in the following months, amounting to
about 50,000; and those in the Vilayets of Bitlis and Van and the
province of Moush, approximately 230,000; and those who perished in
Erzeroum, Kharpout, Sivas, Stamboul, Trebizond, Adana, Broussa, Urfa,
Zeitoun, and Aintab--estimated at upwards of 350,000