A RASH ADVENTURE It was all very well to decide to leave the country; to get safely away was a different matter.

There were two ways out.

One of these--the land route by Constantinople--could not be considered.

The other way was to board one of the American cruisers which, by order of Ambassador Morgenthau, were empowered to assist citizens of neutral countries to leave the Ottoman Empire.

These cruisers had already done wonderful rescue work for the Russian Jews in Palestine, who, when war was declared, were to have been sent to the Mesopotamian town of Urfa--there to suffer massacre and outrage like the Armenians.