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 ABDUL HAMID'S LAST DAY

Mersina,

April twenty-fifth. Mother dear:

I wish you knew right now that we are at the Dodds in Mersina. It would relieve your mind of anxiety that must be weighing on you. But we cannot send an optimistic, reassuring cablegram. In the first place it would not be true. Then no message must go out whose chance publication in the newspapers would tend to make the world believe that danger here is passed. The Powers might relax what diplomatic pressure they are exercising at Constantinople might even recall warships or stop others that we hear are coming. Her- bert is getting out the news by smuggling to Cyprus. He feels the responsibility of every [156]

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