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States Consul-general at Yokohama, Mr. Frazer, 

 and other American and British residents spoke most 

 cordially of their relations with the people among 

 whom they lived. 



^"- Mrs. Diana Agabeg Apcar, an Armenian woman 



^'^'^'^ living in Yokohama, came to me after the lecture to 

 urge that I take up the cause of her unfortunate 

 country. "The Armenians would like to come under 

 Russian rule," said she; "there are degrees even in 

 Hell! But Russia will not interfere till Armenia 

 reaches the lowest depths of misery and suffering." 

 Mrs. Apcar later wrote in letters to various journals 

 and to private individuals many touching appeals 

 in behalf of Armenia, indicating the responsibility 

 of all the Great Powers of Europe for the crushing 

 out of her country, and insisting that no lasting 

 peace was possible until justice was done in the Near 

 East. To me it then seemed that Armenia was too 

 far away to be reached by any influence of mine. 

 This was perhaps true, but we see now, better than 

 in 191 1, that the civilized world is a unit, and that 

 suffering and injustice to any people must in a 

 degree affect all others. 



Owstonthe In Yokohama I renewed my acquaintance with the 

 late Alan Owston, a fine-spirited English naturalist 

 forty years resident in Japan, who had married a 

 Japanese wife and gone into business in Yokohama. 

 Interest in the fishes of that region had led him to 

 make large collections which were of great value to 

 us both in 1900 and 191 1. His steam yacht, the 

 Golden Hind, equipped with apparatus for dredging, 

 furnished many of our new species. 



I found Owston much distressed over the financial 

 outlook. Steadily increasing military expenditures, 



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