Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Terrell to Mr. Gresham.

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, September 23, 1893. (Received October 14.)

No. 68.]

Sir: In answer to a telegram to Mosul, I was informed by telegram by Dr. McDowell that the case against parties arrested for assault on Miss Melton was suffering from needless delay. The governor of the province, who the grand vizier says he regards as culpable, has been removed by him, and his successor, who lives here, has started to relieve him. He will require twenty days to make the journey, and the grand vizier assures me that on his arrival at Mosul speedy punishment will be inflicted upon the guilty parties.

I have, etc.,

A. W. Terrell.