With reference to the final sentence of the telegram dated 26 April.
Intercession on your part in favour of the Armenians will take the form of preventing excesses by the mob, such as massacres and plundering, and of encouraging proper proceedings against politically suspicious persons. In doing so it is important to avoid this appearing as if we have a right to protect the Armenians and intervene in the activities of the authorities, as well as to possibly also emphasise this in the face of the authorities. For your own information: the local authorities have arrested several hundred Armenian dignitaries over the past few days and deported them to Anatolia, allegedly because there were some signs of a revolutionary movement.