Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Acting British consul-general to United States legation.

Tabriz, April 18, 1898.

No. 8.]

Bagdasarian has been handed to-day to me. I shall do needful.

[Inclosure 2 in No. 21.—Translation.—Telegrams sent in Turkish.]

Bagdasarian to United States Minister.

Salmas, 17th of Zeekadeh, 1315 (9th of April, 1898).

No. 1.]

By order of the Emir-i-Nizam, I am kept as a prisoner. I beg you to obtain my release.