Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Terrell to Mr. Olney.

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, July 13, 1896. (Received July 30.)

No. 919.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Rev. Mr. Baird, a missionary educator, has gone to Bitlis to supply the place of the Rev. George Knapp. In pursuance of the agreement with me by the Turkish Government that when a missionary was withdrawn another should take his place, every facility was afforded to Mr. Baird by traveling teskereh, etc., by the Government.

I have, etc.,

A. W. Terrell.