Tevfik Pasha to Moustapha Bey.
As you know, it is a proved fact that foreign steamers land at Constantinople Armenian anarchists, as well as dynamite, infernal machines, and explosives. Those anarchists who hide themselves on board of the steamers do not land after their arrival, but disguise as seamen or otherwise in order to avoid the police. On the other hand, the Armenian anarchists abroad misuse the hospitality they are granted in certain countries, and propagate the most subversive rumors and publish articles in the newspapers calculated to keep up revolutionary ideas in the minds of their coreligionists in Turkey.
This state of things paralyzes the effort made by the Imperial authorities to prevent new troubles in that country.
We cherish the hope that the Government near which you are accredited, and which has never ceased from giving evidence of its solicitude for the maintenance of the good order in the Empire, would not in all cases refuse to us the support we need for the realization of this aim and to transmit to its representative at Constantinople formal instructions directing him to invite the authorities established under his jurisdiction to lend us their aid and necessary facilities to exercise a watch on the steamers coming from abroad.
[Page 926]We ask this inspection in order only to prevent the landing of Armenian agitators, of engines, arms, etc.
As to the publications made by Armenian revolutionists in foreign newspapers and to their plots, we rely on the feelings of friendship and sense of justice of the Cabinet for the adoption of such measures as they may deem proper to stop them. We should be particularly grateful if they would proceed to the expulsion of those agitators, and this measure seems the most efficient to neutralize their deeds.