ABSTRACT
The Arshavir Shiragian family house, which contained no men of military age, became a secret meeting place for the local leaders of the Dashnak Party. After the surrender by the Sublime Porte and the occupation of the district of Pera by the British, the Armenian traitors went underground, abandoned to their fate by the Ittihadist leaders as they fled. The geopolitical upheavals that had occurred in the meantime had forced the Dashnak leaders in exile to abandon the operation planned for Baku. Aram, who knew no one in Constantinople, was at once looked after by the section, which found him a place to stay and gave him some money. Arshavir would first have to make contact with a Dashnak investigator who had been on a mission in the Italian capital for two months. The representative gave him a brand new passport: this time Shiragian would be called Arsil Sirag, a Greek from the community in Adrianople in Turkey.
