Meanwhile, from all the reports that have arrived from missionaries and others, we may take one or two, almost at random.  At certain places, as in the governments of Ismid, Angora and Diarbekr, the Armenian population was completely wiped out.  Sometimes tortures were added, as at a certain Anatolian town where there was a big Armenian school, in which a number of professors and instructors, some of whom had studied in America, in Scotland, and in Germany, had for years been working.

What happened to them was this:—­

(1) Professor A served the College thirty-five years, and taught Turkish and history.  He was arrested without charge, the hair of his head and beard were pulled out in order to secure damaging confessions.  He was starved and hung up by the arms for a day and a night and repeatedly beaten.  He was then murdered.

(2) Professor B, who had served the College thirty-three years, and taught mathematics, suffered the same fate.

(3) Professor C, head of the preparatory department, had served the College for twenty years.  He was made to witness the spectacle of a man being beaten almost to death, and became mentally deranged.  He was murdered with his family.

(4) Professor D, who taught mental and moral sciences, was treated in the same way as Professor A. He also had three finger nails pulled out by the roots, and was subsequently murdered.

Similarly, at Diarbekr, the Armenians were collected in batches of 600, taken out of the town, and killed to the last man.  Among them was the Armenian Archbishop; his eyes and nails were dragged out before he was butchered.

Or let us take a look at some of the collecting camps.  At one, described by an eye-witness, we find that the convoy had arrived after several months of travel.  More than half were already dead, they had been pillaged by bandits and Kurds seven times.  They were forbidden to drink water when they passed by a stream, three-quarters of the young women and girls had been kidnapped, the rest were compelled to sleep with the gendarmes who conducted them.  At Osmanieh it was decided to deport the women and children by train.  They lay about the station starving and fever-stricken.  When the train arrived many were jostled on to the line, and the driver yelled with joy, crying out, ’Did you see how I smashed them up?’

At another camp typhus broke out; those who died of it were left unburied, as vouched for by a Turkish officer, in order to increase the infection....

Urfa was another collecting camp for the Armenians in that district, and the following account is based on the information of an eye-witness.  Here, before the concentration began, the Armenians living in the town offered resistance to the Turks, and held out until Fahri Bey, second in command to Jemal the Great, arrived with artillery, bombarded the town, and massacred every Armenian there.  Quiet being thus restored, the bands of deported began to arrive.  They came by rail or on foot, and, with the Prussian love of tabulation, were divided into three groups.