Reply to Tel. dated 4 June.
In all respect I again beg you to allow me to raise a protest. The larger part of the Armenian deportees are women. They would be defenceless and liable to be violated during transport and in the villages. Would it not be possible to deport only the men and leave the women and children in Aleppo? Numerous children have already fallen victim to the deportations.
[Note by Mordtmann]
At the same time he mentioned that the American Ambassador had recently shown him the well-known note by Agence Havas and without reservation he touched upon the intentions of the government to take advantage of the World War to make a clean sweep of its internal enemies - the indigenous Christians of all confessions - without being hindered in doing so by diplomatic intervention from other countries.