32.The following summary is based mainly on the following books and documents: Bishop Papken Gyuleserian, Տեղեկագիր Սուրիոյ եւ Պաղեստինի Հայ գաղթականութեանց մասին [Report on Armenian settlements in Syria and Palestine], Jerusalem, 1923, Archives of the AND, Microfilm 1, Bibl. Nubar; Յուշամատեան Ճիպէյլի Ամերիկեան Որբանոցի, 1920-1925 [Memento of Jbeil's American orphanage, 1920-1925], published by its former wards, Beirut, 1969; Issues of 1920 to 1927 of The New Near East, a monthly published in New York; Aram Andonian, Dénombrement des orphelins arméniens disséminés dans la République arménienne d'Érivan, en Turquie, Syrie, Palestine, Grèce, Bulgarie, Roumanie, Italie, Suisse, France, Angleterre et au Canada [Census of the Armenian orphans scattered across the Armenian Republic of Yerevan, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Italy, Switzerland, France, England, and Canada], Paris, 1923.
33. This name was given to the orphanage in Jbeil after NER withdrew. The Danish mission “Kvindelige Missions Arbejdere” bought the land in 1928. Jacobsen took over the direction of the orphanage, transfering the children in the orphanage that she had supervised at Saida to Jbeil.
34. Letter of 19 July 1922 from the consul general stationed in Cilicia to General Gouraud, CADN, Fonds Ankara, no. 110.
35. Dr. Melkonian, letter no. 115 of 15 November 1922 to the president of the AND, op. cit., pp. 1-2.
36. Dr. Melkonian, letter of 11 December 1921 to the president of the AND, op. cit., pp. 3-4.
37. Letter of 12 August 1921 from the Aleppo branch to the AGBU Executive Council in Cairo, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Aleppo, December 1919-December 1921.
38. Minutes of the Central Board Meetings, 5th meeting, 31 October 1921, ff. 24-25, Bibl. Nubar.
39.39. Nshan Der Bedrosian, article pub-lished in Azk Bahag, 6 March 1922, cited in Peter Hreshdagian, “Adur Levonian as Director of Orphanage,” unpublished ms., p. 7.
40. Ibid., pp. 14-17.
41. Letter of 4 April 1924 from the Cairo Executive Committee to the Aleppo branch, Correspondence of the head office, vol. 62, f° 56, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
42. Report by S. Berberian, 7 September 1924, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Aleppo, 1 September 1924-31 August 1925.
43. Report on the year 1924 from the Aleppo branch, 1 June 1925, ibid.
44. “L'orphelinat-atelier Giligian d'Alep,” Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
45. Kévonian, “Réfugiés et diplomatie humanitaire,” op. cit., p. 265.
46. Among these tribal chiefs, Sheikh Mejhem, Sheikh Hashem, and Sheikh Nazem, the leaders of the Syrian Anezes, should be singled out for mention.