sentences:  In May, 1918 he was appointed as the United States representative in Arkhangelsk, Russia, then moved to Helsinki.While working as US consul to Harput, Leslie Davis personally witnessed how huge clusters of Armenian populations, who were being deported from provinces outside Harput to the Der Zor desert in Syria, were rerouted in Harput “only to be butchered in this province”.Some of his observations concerned the condition of Armenian deportees arriving from further north.