(Established 1896.)
for the cause of Turkey and her allies, although offers of autonomy were made if they actively assisted Turkey in the war.
"Partly on account of this courageous refusal, the Ottoman Armenians were systematically murdered by the Turkish government in 1916, two-thirds of the population being exterminated by most cold-blooded and fiendish methods—700,000 men, women, and children being killed.
"From the beginning of the war that half of the Armenian nation under Russian sovereignty organized volunteer corps and bore the brunt of some of the heaviest fighting in Caucasus under their leader Andranik.
"These same Armenian corps after the Russian breakdown took over the Caucasian front and for five months held up the Turkish advance and thus rendered important service to the British in Mesopotamia."
Lord Robert Cecil adds that Armenians are still fighting in Syria and have been taking part in the Palestine campaign. 