Enver Pasha has of late been somewhat out of favour in Berlin,
and I cannot but think it curious that when, on April 2, 1917, he
visited the submarine base at Wilhelmshaven, he was very nearly killed
in a motor accident. But it may have been an accident. Since then I
cannot find that he has taken any more active part in Pan-Turkish ideals
than to open a soup-kitchen in some provincial town, and lecture the
Central Committee of the Young Turks on the subject of internal affairs
in Great Britain. I do not like lectures, but I should have liked to
hear that one.

I have left to the end of this chapter the question of Germany's
knowledge of, and complicity in the Armenian massacres. From the tribune
of the Reichstag, on January 15, 1916, there was made a definite denial
of the existence of such massacres at all; on another subsequent
occasion it was stated that Germany could not interfere in Turkish
internal affairs.

In view of the fact that there is no internal affair appertaining to
Turkey in which Germany has not interfered, the second of these
statements may be called insincere. But the denial of the massacres is a
deliberate lie. Germany--official Germany--knew all about them, and she
permitted them to go on. A few proofs of this are here shortly stated.

(1) In September 1915, four months before the denial of the massacres
was made in the Reichstag, Dr. Martin Niepage, higher grade teacher in
the German Technical School at Aleppo, prepared and sent, as we have
seen, in his name, and that of several of his colleagues, a report of
the massacres to the German Embassy at Constantinople. In that report he
gives a terrible account of what he has seen with his own eyes, and also
states that the country Turks' explanation with regard to the origin of
these measures is that it was 'the teaching of the Germans.' The German
Embassy at Constantinople therefore knew of the massacres, and knew
also that the Turks attributed them to orders from Germany. Dr. Niepage
also consulted, before sending his report, with the German Consul at
Aleppo, Herr Hoffman, who told him that the German Embassy had been
already advised in detail about the massacres from the consulates at
Alexandretta, Aleppo, and Mosul, but that he welcomed a further protest
on the subject.

(2) These reports, or others like them, had not gone astray, for in
August 1915, the German Ambassador in Constantinople, Baron Wangenheim,
made a formal protest to the Turki