The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . urned, though shaken, in the intentions of the YoungTurks to grant to the Christians of Turkey theregime of equaUty and security of life and prop-erty which the constitution guaranteed. Eventhe Armenians, terrible as this blow had been,were also willing to forgive and forget. But thecondition of forgiveness, an
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . urned, though shaken, in the intentions of the YoungTurks to grant to the Christians of Turkey theregime of equaUty and security of life and prop-erty which the constitution guaranteed. Eventhe Armenians, terrible as this blow had been,were also willing to forgive and forget. But thecondition of forgiveness, and the proof of sincerityof the declarations of the Young Turks, both tothe outside world and to the Armenians wouldbe the punishment of those who had been guiltyof this most horrible blot upon the civilization ofthe twentieth century. This was to be the Court-Martial, sent to Adana from Con-stantinople after the new Sultan was establishedupon the throne and the Young Turks were certainof their position, had every guarantee to enableit to do its work thoroughly and justly. It wasnot influenced or threatened. There was, however,no honest intention to give decisions impartiallyand in accordance with the facts that the investi-gation would bring forth. The methods and find-. ENTRY OF THE YOUNG TURKS INTO CONSTANTINOPLE and more than half of the city was in ruins. Thissecond massacre occurred in spite of the fact thata dozen foreign warships were by this time an-chored in the harbour of Mersina. It is impossibleto estimate the losses of life and property in thevilayets of Cilicia and northern Syria during thelast two weeks of April, 1908. Not less than thirtythousand Armenians were massacred. . Fromthe very beginning, the Young Turks, now re-established in Constantinople with a Sultan oftheir own creation, and having nothing more tofear from the genius and bad will of Abdul Hamid,protested before Europe that the massacres weredue to the old regime and that they had beenarra
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