r a Kurd.' She
refused, and said: 'If you wish to do me a kindness I will ask one thing
which you may do for me.' I told her I would do whatever she wished, and
she said: 'I have a brother, younger than myself, here amongst these
people. I pray you to kill him before you kill me, so that in dying I
may not be anxious in mind about him.' She pointed him out and I called
him. When he came, she said to him, 'My brother, farewell. I kiss you
for the last time, but we shall meet, if it be God's will, in the next
world, and He will soon avenge us for what we have suffered.' They
kissed each other, and the boy delivered himself to me. I must needs
obey my orders, so I struck him one blow with an axe, split his skull,
and he fell dead. Then she said: 'I thank you with all my heart, and
shall ask you one more favour'; she put her hands over her eyes and
said: 'Strike as you struck my brother, one blow, and do not torture
me.' So I struck one blow and killed her, and to this day I grieve over
her beauty and youth, and her wonderful courage."

PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARMENIANS lying in the road, dressed in turbans, for
despatch to Constantinople. The Turkish Government thought that European
nations might get to hear of the destruction of the Armenians and
publish the news abroad so as to excite prejudice against the Turks. So
after the gendarmes had killed a number of Armenian men, they put on
them turbans and brought Kurdish women to weep and lament over them,
saying that the Armenians had killed their men. They also brought a
photographer to photograph the bodies and the weeping women, so that at
a future time they might be able to convince Europe that it was the
Armenians who had attacked the Kurds and killed them, that the Kurdish
tribes had risen against them in revenge, and that the Turkish
Government had had no part in the matter. But the secret of these
proceedings was not hidden from men of intelligence, and after all this
had been done, the truth became known and was spread abroad in
Diarbekir.

CONVERSION OF ARMENIAN WOMEN TO ISLAM.--When the Government undertook
the extermination of the Armenians some of the women went to the Mufti
and the Kadi, and declared their desire to embrace the Mohammedan faith.
These authorities accepted their conversion, and they were married to
men of Diarbekir, either Turks or Kurds.

After a while, the Government began to collect these women, so the Mufti
and the Kadi went to the Vali and said t