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 too busy to "listen" this afternoon, he would, perhaps, be good enough to make another appointment!" Surely the fine picture of this grand American calling the "noble" Baron to order upon a question of good breeding is one which each correspondent must see, hear, and describe for himself.

It is, no doubt, largely due to the great difficulty of obtaining first hand news, that most people are anti-Turk. We were told, for example, that Riza Nour was "insolent"; whereas he had patiently listened for hours" to nonsense about the "National Armenian Home," before he left the Conference room in despair of being permitted to tell the truth.

And, partly no doubt because they may not comment upon anything of real importance, the papers are always ready to enlarge upon some trivial detail that is calculated to fan the flames of hate, or point the finger of scorn, towards any Turk. Someone asserted that the Turkish military expert had made a little mistake in preparing a map. He himself did not admit that he was wrong; but in any case, no one pretended that the matter was in the least important; and it could, ultimately, be rectified without the slightest effect on policy. Remember, too, that the poor man was working from surveys prepared on different systems, and in a language that describes everything for us backwards. It would not be remarkable if some slight error were made in transposing the details to European measures and methods. Yet the papers all give columns exposing the "little mistake," which, most probably, was never made. Vital questions, meanwhile, were almost entirely ignored in the Press; and the "insolent" Asiatics are filled with bitter resentment. It is idle for Mr. MacClure to say that "they must expect criticism." What they complain of is not "criticism," but the entire "ignoring" of their point of view—a very different thing.

The journalist whom I thus attacked admitted that they deserved all I said. "The public," he added, "has been misled, one might say 'cheated.' I could myself have supplied a good deal of first-class information,