It is true that as against the Turks, we Armenians are beaten for the time being, as the Greeks were beaten a century ago, and the Bulgars in 1875. We are beaten, not so much by the strength of the Turk as by our internal conditions. It is now an open secret that in October last our army surrendered Kors without firing a shot, for ¥easons which may be told later, but we need not on that account conclude that there has been a sudden accession of strength and virtue to the Turk. In spite of his moral and financial bankruptey the Turk still retains his military momentum, whereas we have not yet acquired any. In the case of the Turk, this momentum had almost spent (itself, and iv the natural course of things must fail before the Armenian as it failed before the Greek, the Servian and the Bulgar. Even should the Treaty of Sévres be revised, the Greeks may be relicd upon to take caro of themselves. But we Armenians are for the moment in a hopeless position, broken financially and militarily and reduced to a state of impotence for which we ourselves are less responsible than those more powerful and more fortunate nations, who failed to give up their promised aid.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.