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Show ARMENIANS IRE NOT MURDERED DAVISSAYS Secretary Refutes Charge on Report in Connection With Deportations WASHINGTON. April 14. After in t Investigation by the a tat and labor department over a period of thrs months, it has been determined definitely. defi-nitely. Secretary Davla announced today, to-day, that no Armenlana deported from tho I n I ted States under the immigration immigra-tion laws hsve been massacred by 1 Turks at Constantinople. Testimony before the house Immigration committee commit-tee in December by witnesses urging-modification urging-modification of the lnw Included circumstantial cir-cumstantial accounts of the slaughter of one party of seventeen Armenians ster their return from the United States to Constantinople. "After leaving no avenue of useful Investigation unexplored," Hecretary Hughes wrote to Mr. Davla In a letter given out today, "the American high commission at Constantinople was unable un-able to find the slightest evidence to substantiate the rumor to which you have Invited my attention. The aharg W I ha ihiimmi was made originally to the committee by C. , V. Knightly, representing the corner- ' stone welfare council of Boston, who j said that the seventeen Armenians In queston after their arrival at Constantinople Constan-tinople were not seen any more until ; their dead bodies were seen in the j Bosphorus or In the ocean." j |