CHAPTER  V.
THE OUTCOME OF THE TREATY OF BERLIN.

IT is quite needless to remark that Turkey, instead
of doing anything to improve the condition of
the Armenians, has done much to make it
worse during the past fifteen years. The question
now arises, what have the Powers signatory to the
Berlin Treaty done to compel the Subhme Porte
*^ to carry out the improvements and reforms"
demanded in the Sixty-first Article ? And what
steps has Great Britain taken in addition, to dis¬
charge the additional obligation for the improve¬
ment of Armenia which she assumed by the so-called
Cyprus Convention ?

We find that in November, 1879, ^^^ English
Government, seeing that matters throughout Asia
Minor were really going from bad to worse, went
the length of ordering an English squadron to the
Archipelago for the purpose of a naval demonstra¬
tion. The Turkish Government was greatly ex¬
cited, and with a view to getting the order counter¬
manded, made the fairest promises.

But England was not the only Power aroused. On
June II, t88o, an Identical Note of the Great
Powers demanded the execution of the clauses of

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