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Lord Bryce, went on to describe the massacre at Trebizond,

where some ten thousand Armenian Christians were destroyed in one afternoon. They were put on board sailing boats, taken out to sea, and then thrown overboard. Nearly the whole Armenian nation was wiped out. The only chance of saving the remnant was to be found in an expression of the public opinion of the Christian nations. Lord Bryce is, we fear, too sanguine. What effect has the opinion of the Christian nations had upon the nation which not merely allowed, but stimulated and ordered, the massacres and rapes, the burnings and the pillage, in Belgium and Northern France ?