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...of intimidation fine[inprisonment] and
expulsion over forty schools were closed
and remain so. Also[?] were sent to
[?] children on their way to schools.
[Cardawar]near Mersine with a school
of one hundred and eight Moslem 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 to
surrender the girls if they are Turkish
subjects. The honorable minister is
more generous to the Turks then they
had asked him to be. They asked the
privledge of taking children of Moslem
parentage but the Minister[?]
them the right of demanding all
Turkish subjects. They may ask all
our pupils and we are commanded
to give them up one and all on the
mere demand of the proper civil authorities!

...of intimidation fine[inprisonment] 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 Moslem 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 [to]
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 Moslem
parentage but the Minister[?]
them the right of demanding all
Turkish subjects. They may ask all
our pupils and we are commanded
to give them up one and all on the
mere demand of the proper civil authorities!