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Transcriber’s Note: you will find both Christian(ity, etc) and
christian used in this book, seemingly interchangeably; spelling of
names is also variable.




When this book was written, the writer was under the supposition then
generally current that the Armenian Massacres of April, 1909, in
Cilicia were instigated by Abdul Hamid and his Yildiz Clique. Babikian
Effendi, the Armenian deputy who went to Adana from Constantinople
to investigate into the massacres, plainly reported that all
investigations had failed to trace them to Abdul Hamid and his Yildiz
Clique. Babikian Effendi, as was to be expected, died suddenly on
his return to Constantinople, but later on it became known that the
massacres of April,