ARMENIA

120 ARMENIA AND THE WAR
her story to the Stapletons, from which it appeared
that she had been handed round to ten
officers after the murder of her husband and his
mother, to be their sport" (p. 225).
" 'See what care the Government is taking of
the Armenians,' the Vali said, and she returned
home surprised and pleased ; but when she visited
the Orphanage again several days later, there
were only thirteen of the 700 children left—the
rest had disappeared. They had been taken,
she learnt, to a lake six hours' journey by road
from the town and drowned" (p. 260).
"Sister D. A. was told, at Constantinople, that
Turks of all parties were united in their approval
of what was being done to the Armenians, and
that Enver Pasha openly boasted of it as his personal
achievement. Talaat Bey, too, was reported
to have remarked, on receiving news of
Vartkes's 1 assassination: 'There is no room in the
Empire for both Armenians and Turks. Either
they had to go or we' " (p. 261).
1 Mr. Vartkes was an Armenian deputy in the Ottoman
Parliament, who was murdered, together with another
deputy, Mr. Zohrab, when he was being escorted by gendarmes
from Aleppo to be court-martialled at Diyarbekir
,(see Documents 7 and 9)-—EDITOR.