82.Natanian, Report to the Aleppo branch of 25 April 1935, op. cit.
83. Major J. F. Johnson, letter of 13 November 1934 from Geneva to V. Malezian, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
84. Mecerian, “Un désastre,” op. cit., pp. 57-65; High Commissioner Ponsot, telegram of 30 January 1933 from Beirut to the French Foreign Ministry, MAE, Levant 1918-1940, Armenia, vol. 24, f° 287. The fire began in Manug Cholakian's bakery and spread to the rest of camp.
85. Letter no. 239 of 23 May 1933 from the Beirut branch to the Regional Committee of Egypt, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Beirut, 1933-1935.
86. M. Natanian, letter of 18 February 1935 from Beirut to the Regional Committee of Egypt, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Inspection scolaire de Syrie et du Liban, 1 September 1934-20 August 1935.
87. Greenshields, “The Settlement of Armenian Refugees in Syria and Lebanon,” op. cit., pp. 401-405; letter no. 2084 of 7 September 1925 from the Aleppo branch to the Cairo Executive Committee, AGBU Central Archives/ Cairo: Aleppo, 1 September 1925-31 July 1926.
88. Hagop Surian was supervisor of the camp in Vekile; the supervisor of the Bahsita camp was E. Badigian, who was succeeded by A. Asdurian. These men submitted detailed monthly reports on the situation in the two camps to the Aleppo branch.
89. Anon., Հալէպի Գաղութատունը [The home for refugees in Aleppo], Arch Bibl. Nubar/Paris; Rapport annuel (1924) du comité de l'Union d'Alep, Aleppo, 1 June 1925, p. 8, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Aleppo, 1 September 1924-31 August 1925; letter no. 950 of 30 May 1922 from the Aleppo branch to the Cairo Executive Committee, ibid., 1 January 1922-June 1923, p. 3; letter no. 1107 of 24 April 1923 from the Aleppo branch to the Cairo Executive Committee, ibid.
90. Colonel Jude (physician, general inspector of the High Commission's Office of Sanitation and Public Health), Report to the High Commissoner, Beirut, 26 June 1930, MAE, Levant 1918-1940, Arménié, vol. 24, ff. 74-76.
91. L. Pashalian, “Mission à Genève du 14 au 17 mars 1930, le comité financier,” Report of 25 March 1930 submitted to Vahan Malezian, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo, Central Board, Paris, 10 November 1929-28 September 1931, p. 3.
92. 105,000 square meters.
93. Letter no. 62 of 19 January 1932 from Beirut from the High Commission-er in Syria and Lebanon to the French Foreign Ministry, MAE, Levant 1918-1940, Arménie, vol. 24, f° 272; “Installations des réfugiés arméniens en Syrie et au Liban: Rapport pour l'annee 1931,” op. cit., ff. 278-279; “Rapport concernant les Arméniens du vilayet d'Alep,” 28 September 1929, op. cit., p. 2; “Rapport. . . sur le progrès de l'établissement des réfugiés arméniens en Syrie, en 1930,” op. cit., p. 7.