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orphans were taken far away to Turkish houses to be trained in the Mohametan faith. About a quarter of a million widows and orphans and helpless aged people were left to the mercy of nature and their Moslem neighbors. The unspeakable Turk, with a single blow, made the ridiculous scheme of reforms inoperative by reducing the proportion of the Armenians in the mentioned six provinces and in the greater part of the Province of Aleppo, where Zeitoon, being the neuclus, the Silesian Armenians were expecting their share in the promised reform.

The following are the names of 105 Armenian clergymen killed in massacres:

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"A. OF THE GREGORIAN ARMENIAN CHURCH.

I.

"PROVINCE OF TREBIZOND.

1–6. Six priests, names not given.

II.

"PROVINCE OF ERZEROUM.

7. Der Kerekine, of Erzeroum.
8. Der Yeghia, of Tevnik.
9. Priest, of Kak.
10. Priest, of Oumdoun.
11. Abbot Timotheus, of Hassan-Kaleh.
12. Archimandrite Khorene Guroyan, of Baibourt.
13. Der Ohannes, of Ksanta.
14. Der Harutiun, of Ksanta.
15. Der Magar, of Plour.
16. Der Krikor, of Bushdi.
17. Priest, of Balakhor.
18. Der Khatt, of Hanksdoun.
19. Der Ghevont, of Monastery of the Illuminator.
20. Priest, of Khunzdrig.
21. Priest, of Karatash.
22. Der Hagop, of Large Armundan.
23. Der Krikoriss, of Little Armundan.