Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1884

No. 435.
Mr. Heap to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, May 14, 1884. (Received June 2.)

No. 388.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit a copy and translation of a note from the Sublime Porte, received recently at the legation, which I think may be accepted as an ultimatum respecting the case of Dr. Pflaum. Further action on our part, if any is taken, now rests with the Department.

I am, &c.,

G. H. HEAP.

[Inclosure in No. 388.—Translation.]

Assim Pasha to Mr. Wallace.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Sublime Porte, April 30, 1884.

Monsieur l’Envoyé: The imperial ministry has had the honor to receive the note your excellency was good enough to address it the 27th of last February (No. 204), relative to the affair of Dr. Pflaum.

This communication presents no new considerations in the discussion which would justify a modification of the views exposed by my Department in its verbal note No. 73708, 6.

Your excellency will permit me, therefore, to wait for the result of the measures we have taken in relation to this affair with the ministry of justice and of the interior.

Accept, &c.,

M. ASSIM.