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1st Army Command From Army Headquarters at Nişantaşı
1st Division 2nd Department September 11, 1916
Number: 2588
To: Office of the Commander-in-Chief
Summary: About the Armenian deserters caught in the responsibility area of the 5th Army Corps Recruitment Committee.
In the clashes that took place between the tracker teams and the deserters in the vicinity of Dişli Village of the Sorgun district of Yozgat a soldier with a modified Mauser rifle, and in Akdağmadeni region 5 Armenian deserters and a woman have been captured dead, and a woman alive. The Directorate of the 5th Army Corps Recruitment Committee informs that on the fourteenth day of this month 4 people from the Kesriç and Demirci villages of Akdağmadeni have been massacred by the Armenian deserters; and that the tracking of the murderers is still continuing with all its urgency.
1st Army Commander