File 705/1916 Pt 2 'Arab revolt: Arab reports; Sir M Sykes' reports' [‎65v] (128/450)

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Russia and Armenia.
The 'October number of “ Armenia,” a monthly Armenian review published in
Italian at Turin, has an article under this heading. The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. thereof reproduces in
full and deals with an article published on the 10th August last in the Russian news-^
paper “ Retch,” headed c£ The Colonisation of Turkish Armenia.” The article in
“Armenia” is very decidedly anti-Russian, the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. urging that under the rules
made by Russia for the colonisation of Armenia, the Armenians will be no better off
than they were under the Turks. There are to be Russian colonists and Cossack
colonists, but no Armenian may return to Armenia unless he can produce documentary
evidence of his title to land. The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. in £C Armenia” sums up the situation by saying
that if the article in “ Retch ’ be correct, the Russian authorities have taken all necessary
measures to make the Turkish project of exterminating the Armenians a reality, at any
rate in certain districts. The only way by which an Armenian can re-enter into the
possession of his belongings is to prove his right by contracts of purchase or other
documents. Of the contracts nothing, not even the ghost, remains in Turkish Armenia,
and the number of those who could preserve documents when it was a question of saving
their life would be few indeed ; whilst the children and relations of those who were
massacred, who were out of Turkey at the time, are by that fact alone deprived of every
right, there not even being left to them the theoretical possibility of putting forward
documents.
“ La Lettura ” and the Arabian Revolt.
In the November number of “ La Lettura,” a magazine published in Milan in
connection with the “ Corriere della Sera ” newspaper, there is an article on the Arabian
revolt by Professor Eugenio Griffin, who begins by saying that all news of the Sherifs
revolt comes from English sources. The Arab revolt, he goes on to say, is an expression
embracing various separatist movements in a fictitious unity, though there is no
cohesion between them. The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. is of opinion that the advantages that England and
her Allies will gain from the insurrection will depend largely on the propaganda of the
pilgrims after their return home, and that will be a propaganda of hostility against the
irreligious Young-Turk-German Government.