--we arrive at a
total of Armenians killed, or dead from disease, hunger, or thirst, of
1,200,000.

There remain 300,000 Armenians in the Vilayet of Aleppo, in Syria, and
Deir-el-Zur (those deported thither), and in America and Egypt and
elsewhere; and 400,000 in Roumelian territory, held by the Balkan
States, thus making a grand total of 1,900,000.

The above is what I was able to learn as to the statistics of the
slaughtered Armenians, and I would quote an extract from _El-Mokattam_,
dealing with this subject:

"The Basle correspondent of the _Temps_ states that, according to
official reports received from Aleppo in the beginning of 1916, there
were 492,000 deported Armenians in the districts of Mosul, Diarbekir,
Aleppo, Damascus, and Deir-el-Zur. The Turkish Minister of the Interior,
Talaat Bey, estimates the number of deportees at 800,000, and states
that 300,000 of these have been removed or have died in the last few
months.

"Another calculation gives the number of deported Armenians as 1,200,000
souls, and states that at least 500,000 have been killed or have died in
banishment" (_El-Mokattam_, May 30th, 1916).

THE ARMENIANS AND THE ARAB TRIBES.--As I approached Diarbekir, I passed
through many Arab tribes, with whom I saw a number of Armenians, men and
women, who were being well treated, although the Government had let the
tribes know that the killing of Armenians was a bounden duty. I did not
hear of a single instance of an Armenian being murdered or outraged by
a tribesman, but I heard that some Arabs, passing by a well into which
men and women had been thrown, drew them out when at the last extremity,
took them with them, and tended them till they were recovered.

THE ARAB AND THE ARMENIAN BEGGAR WOMAN.--[M] ...

[Footnote M: The narrative concludes with the relation of an instance of
courageous charity on the part of a Baghdad soldier to an Armenian woman
begging in the streets of Diarbekir.--TRANSLATOR.]

CONCLUSION

If the Turkish Government were asked the reasons for which the Armenian
men, women, and children were killed, and their honour and property
placed at any man's mercy, they would reply that this people have
murdered Moslems in the Vilayet of Van, and that there have been found
in their possession prohibited arms, explosive bombs, and indications of
steps towards the formation of an Armenian State, such as flags and the
like, all pointing to the fact that this race has not tur