20.M. Weygand, “Note au sujet des articles relatifs à la Syrie parus les 4 et 6 mars 1924 dans le journal l'Humanité,” 6 mars 1924, SHAT, 4H 148/1A, État-majeur de l'Armée, 720 9/11.
21. Satow (consul general in Beirut), letter no. 56 of 24 April 1923 to the Foreign Office, Foreign Office 371/9056, Pol. Eastern-Syria, 1923, ff. 50-51.
22. The French benefited from the services of Hrant Maloyan, a captain in the Alexandretta gendarmerie who worked as an officer in the intelligence department in the sanjak of Jabal Bereket in French-occupied Cilicia.
23. Dr. B. Melkonian, letter no. 131 of 12 February 1923 from Beirut to G. Noradungian (president of the AND), Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris: Corresponden-ce of Dr. Melkonian, p. 5.
24. Dr. Melkonian, letter of 24 January 1922 to the president of the ANU, op. cit., p. 3.
25. Dr. Melkonian, letters of 15 November 1922 and 11 December 1921 from Beirut to the president of the AND, op. cit., pp. 4-5, p. 3.
26. Dr. Baghdasar Melkonian (1877- 3 April 1947). An Armenian Catholic, born in Adana, Melkonian studied medicine in the Faculty of Medicine of Beirut's St. Joseph University. After pursuing his medical studies in Paris, he returned to Beirut to take a post at the French University. He served as Chief Physician in the Ottoman Army in Beirut and Tripoli during the first World War. From 1919 to 1920, he was head of the health service
for the French troops stationed in the Alexandretta and Tripoli districts. Melkonian died in Beirut.
27. Minutes of the Central Board Meeting of 21 February 1922, 14th meet-ing, ff. 65-66, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
28. Anon., “Les orphelinats Sissouan et Kélékian,” Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
29. Letter of 18 July 1924 from the Cairo Executive Committee to bishop Kevork Arslanian, locum tenens for the Patriarch in Istanbul, Correspondence of the head office, vol. 62, f° 809, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
30. Father Paul Aris (25 January 1889-24 January 1961) was born in Aleppo. In 1902, he was a student at Constantino-ple's French Seminary of Saint Louis. In 1910, he completed his theological stud-ies in Bzommar. After the first World War, he was named secretary of the Beirut ANU and played an important role in gathering up orphans. In 1919 and 1920, he toured Cilicia and wrote studies on the situation of the Armenians. He was elected mayor of Bourdj Hammoud in 1952. Father Aris died in Beirut.
31. T.H. Greenshields, “The Settlement of Armenian Refugees in Syria and Lebanon, 1915-1939,” Ph.D. Thesis, Durham, Great Britain, 1978, p. 95.