The Rajah released it to the press with the following short statement
of his own, "We are all aware that in the war in which Turkey and the Allies
are involved and armistice, has now been proclaimed and terms of peace
are being considered. Let us all hope that the war has practically come
to an end and that further bloodshed will be averted. If that is happily
so, there will be no further addition to the number of the wounded and
the work with which the Red Crescent Society is immediately concerned will
soon come to a close. But there has arisen an acute form the problem of
relieving the widows and orphans of those who have been slain and the refugees
who have been obliged to take shelter within the walls of Constantinople
from numerous places. Their number must be large and their suffering intense.
The following cablegram from His Highness the Aga Khan to me, indicates
the gravity of the situation." (Aziz; 402)