40.Lieutenant-Colonel Capitrel (officer of the French High Commission in Cilicia), “Plan d'évacuation des Chrétiens à notre charge en Cilicie” [Plan for evacuating the Cilician Christians under our responsibility], Adana, 29 September 1920, CADN, M. S-L., 1er v., Cilicie-Aleppo, no. 326 (no. 3037/R).
41. James L. Barton, Story of Near East Relief (1915-1930), New York, 1930, pp. 7-8.
42. Kévonian, “Réfugiés et diplomatie humanitaire,” op. cit., pp. 454-459.
43. Barton, Story of Near East Relief, op. cit., pp. 77-78.
44. Letter of 2 April 1919 from the Aleppo branch to the head office, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Aleppo, no. 23, April 1910-December 1919, C8/2327.
45. Anon., “Azkayin khnamadarutiun,” op. cit., p. 479.
46. Letter of 26 November 1919 from the Aleppo branch to the head office, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Aleppo, December 1919-December 1921.
47. Sahaguian, ed., Heroic Urfa, op. cit., pp. 1143-1144.
48. Letter from the Aleppo branch to the head office, 26 November 1919, op. cit.
49. Ibid.
50. Undated letter from the Aintab ANU to Sahag II, Arch. of the Catholicosate of Antilias, 50, Sis-Aintab-Hajin-Marash (1910-1930).
51. Curtois, Report on an inspection tour of Aintab and Marash, Adana, 14 October 1919, CADN, M. S-L., 1er v., Cil.-Ad., no. 168, pp. 2-4.
52. Ibid., p. 3.
53. “Statistique sur la population de Marach,” Arch. of the Catholicosate of Antilias, 50, Sis-Aintab-Hajin-Marash (1910-1930), Marash, 23 December 1919.
54. Krikor H. Kalusdian, Մարաշ կամ Գերմանիկ [Marash or Kermanig], New York, 1934, p. 491.
55. Armenag Hamamjian, letter of 20 July 1919 to Sahag II, Arch. of the Catholicosate of Antilias, 50, Sis-Aintab-Hajin-Marash (1910-1930).
56. Kalusdian, Marash or Kermanig, op. cit., p. 491.
57. Kerr, The Lions of Marash, op. cit., pp. 74-75.
58. Émile Petizian, “Rapport sur Marache,” Osmaniye, 21 June 1919, CADN, M. S-L., 1er v., Cil.-Ad., no. 166. Many of the women held by Muslim families were isolated from the outside world and so unaware of the Ottoman defeat and the arrival of Allied troops in the region. They feared that they would be massacred by Muslims if they left the families that had kidnapped them.
59. H. B. Boghosian, Հաճընի Ընդհանուր Պատմութիւնը [General history of Hajin], Los Angeles, 1942, p. 659. In June, after a successful counter-offensive, the Armenians took back the American mission building, and all the orphans were transferred to the city. The American missionaries, however, chose to stay put (ibid., pp. 672-673).
60. Colonel Brémond, letter of 3 April 1920 from Adana to the military governor of Mersin, Archives of the AND, Microfilm 13, Bibl. Nubar.