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rades of his own race. For as Lieutenant-Colonel
Doughty- Wylie, V.C., he fell, offering himself in
another emergency, in the immortal landing at Cape
Helles, where the hill of his death has been given
his name, and, one hopes, will retain it always.
Many influences went to the making of the
massacre, some more or less obscure, as the part
taken in planning it by the Turkish Jews of Salonika,
and others belonging to the deeper causes of faith
and race which ever underlie these horrible aflairs.
But some also were local, and exhibited the inconceivable
unwisdom which Armenians so often display
in their larger dealings with Moslems.
Cilicia, as we have seen, is a district closely connected
with Armenian history and independence ; and
here, in the sudden period of liberty which followed
the downfall of Abdul Hamid, Armenians gave unrestrained
vent to their aspirations. Their clubs and
meeting - places were loud with boastings of what
was soon to follow. Post-cards were printed showing
a map of the future Armenian kingdom of Cilicia
and circulated through the Ottoman post. Armenian
nationalists marched in procession in the streets
bearing flags purporting to be the flag of Lesser
Armenia come to life again. The name of the future
king was bandied about, no aloof nebulous personage,
but, it is said, a well-known Armenian landowner of
the Cilician plain, held in peculiar disfavour by Moslems.
Giving a fuller meaning to these matters was
the steady assertion that an Armenian army gathering
in the mountains by Hajin and Zeitun—an army
of rumour like the legendary Royalist Army of Jales
which terrorised revolutionary France—would presently
march upon Adana and set up an Armenian
kingdom again.
Sober Armenians of Cilicia tell you now that these
proceedings were folly, the work of revolutionary
societies and hot-heads, and that the mass of the
Armenian population held aloof. But there can be
no doubt that the movement was approved and sup-