Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1883

No. 558.
Mr. Davis to Mr. Wallace.

[Extract.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 10, 1883.

No. 100.]

Sir: * * * Your dispatch No. 234, of June 18, reporting the particulars of the flagrant attempt upon the lives of the Rev. Mr. Knapp and Dr. G. C. Reynolds, by Koords, near Bitlis, has been received.

Your action in the premises is approved, and it is trusted that the offenders will be secured and properly punished. You will convey the Department’s thanks to Mr. Wyndham, Her Majesty’s representative at Constantinople, for his courteous assistance through the British consul at Erzroom in the matter of the complaint of the assaulted gentlemen.

I am, &c.,

JOHN DAVIS,
Acting Secretary.