Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/1766

The Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Constantinople, May 15, 1915, 10 a. m.
[Received 7.30 p. m.]

665. Your 654. The fifty belligerents [non-combatants?] returned perfectly well and were set free. Philip’s presence at Gallipoli was most useful for hostages and his services invaluable. Out of Gallipoli’s population fifteen thousand have departed leaving about two thousand.

American Ambassador