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...of intimidation fine[impressment] and
expulsion over forty schools were closed
and remain so. Also[?] were just as
[?] children on their way to schools.
[Cardawar]near [Mersine] with a school
of one hundred and eight [?] children
was thus threatened and our work destroyed.
My [contention] is that the Turks have
[rendered] the Berlin Treaty and by these
various methods only schools in
[domiciles] of foreigners [rec] intact.
This last move is against what
remains of our work.

The telegram says for us [?]
surrender the girls if they are Turkish
subjects. The honorable minister is
more generous to the Turks then they
had asked him [?]. They asked the
privledge of taking children of modern
parentage but the Minister[?]
them the right of demanding all
Turkish subjects. They may ask all
our [?] and we are commanded
to give them up one and all on the
mere demand of the proper civil authorities!