He was Russian correspondent of '' The Daily Telegraph '' from 1887 to 1914 and , for a short time , was professor of Sanskrit , Classical Armenian , and Comparative Philology at the University of Kharkiv . He was a friend and associate of the Russian statesman Sergei Witte , whom he accompanied in 1905 to the peace conference at Portsmouth , New Hampshire which formally brought to an end the Russo-Japanese War . He also reported the Dreyfus trial of 1899 , the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 , and the Versailles peace conference in 1919 . When working as a journalist , Dillon occasionally disguised himself in order to observe the action from closer quarters , as was the case when he was sent by '' The Daily Telegraph '' to report on the Turkish massacres of Armenians in 1894-1895
Turkish massacres of Armenians
Hamidian massacres
E. J. Dillon