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

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Terrell.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 18, 1893.

Mr. Gresham acknowledges receipt of Mr. Terrell’s telegram of the 15th, instructs him to protest against punishment of Armenians who have become citizens of the United States as criminals, as well as against their being imprisoned on any ground for too long a time, although admitting that the Porte has the right to expel them and, incidentally, to arrest them for the purpose of expulsion.