Do these words point to a genocide? A page of quotations open to suggestions

I have started this page of quotations with one from Çetin Bayramoğlu's collection. He has another good one giving me a chance to update the page (May 3, 2015):

Arthur Tremaine Chester,”We hear a great deal about the deportation of Armenians from the Northeast of Turkey during the World War. The facts are that the Turks sent an army to the Russian border to defend their country against the threatened Russian invasion.The army consisted of Turkish subjects of all nationalities, being drafted just as ours are drafted. At the front the Armenians used blank cartridges and deserted in droves. This was bad enough, but the Armenians were not satisfied with this form of treachery.”

Source / Kaynak : Arthur Tremaine Chester, “Angora and the Turks,” The New York Times Current History, Feb.1923

https://cetinbayramoglusorun.wordpress.com/2015/05/02/arthur-tremaine-chester-angora-and-the-turks/



I was thinking of a page of quotations for some time. Another blogger Çetin Bayramoğlu has offered his selection at his page titled "Admiral Mark Bristol, Bristol Papers, General Correspondence: Container". I take the opportunity to make a start with a quotation he has taken from Papazian:

“Thousands of Armenians from all over the world, flocked to the standards of such famous fighters as Antranik, Kery, Dro, etc. The Armenian volunteer regiments rendered valuable service to the Russian Army in the years of 1914-15-16.”

–Kapriel Serope Papazian, Patriotism Perverted, Boston Baker Press, 1934, pg. 38

And my selection starts:

"The Turks were so certain of the success of their plan that they had no transports with them and no extra supply of provisions. Opposite Sarikamish, where a battle was waged for three days and three nights, the Turks suffered a loss of 30,000 men, mostly due to cold rather than to the Russian arms. But if the Turkish army corps had reached Sarikamish twenty-four hours earlier, as was expected, it would have confronted only one battalion of Russian reserves, and that without artillery. This was the invaluable service rendered to the Russian army by the fourth battalion of the Armenian volunteers under the command of the matchless Keri. Six hundred Armenian veterans fell in the Barduz Pass, and at such a high price saved the 60,000 Russians from being taken prisoners by the Turks. This great service of the Armenians to the Russian army was announced at the time by Enver Pasha himself, when he returned to Constantinople immediately after his defeat."

Garo, Armen (One of the leaders of the Armenian Volunteer Units, formerly Karekin Pastermadjian Erzurum MP in the Ottoman Parliament). Armenia a leading factor in the winning of the war. New York : The American committee for the independence of Armenia, 1919. p. 6.

will continue...

Updated last: 03.05.2015