Urgent.
Halil Bey arrived here yesterday with his staff. He himself is ill and must stay in bed for several days. A colonel from his staff just informed me that the Armenians in Mosul must also be massacred and it is his intention to do so. He will not be prevented from doing so, not even by me. The Germans are denying their friendship with the Turks as they wished to prevent them from executing the Armenians.
It is imperative that immediate and very forceful orders be sent to Halil Bey to prevent further massacres at all events.
Halil’s troops which massacred in the north are expected here tomorrow or the day after.