"Forty-five thousand Christians from Nigdi to Caesarea and the fifty-two villages around left the merciless Turkish land, and crossing valleys and mountains and seas, they step on the soil of their homeland at this very moment.

For their uprising and their long, arduous journey, the "XII Mixed Sub-Committee on Population Exchange" deeply holds in its soul the pain that it did not do everything that the great hour of need demanded. But it has the light and tranquil conscience that it did the most it could.

Fighting a superhuman struggle with the enormous difficulties and obstacles that blocked the path of its great work at every moment, offering loving help to every outstretched hand that sought it, patiently and courageously searching the remote corners where the victims of terror and violence were hidden, proudly and secretly sacrificing all the strength of its mind and soul, sympathizing with suffering and disregarding hardships and dangers, it reached to lead the last Christian to the borders of their liberation".