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

Secretary of State to Mr. Tyler.

Department of State,
Washington, D. C., May 27, 1898.

No. 27.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 21, of the 21st ultimo, reporting the arrest of the Rev. Mihran Bagdasarian, a naturalized American citizen, for alleged complicity with the revolutionists in Persia.

Your action securing Mr. Bagdasarian’s release from custody pending his trial is approved by the Department.

You will thank the acting British consul-general at Tabriz, through the British diplomatic representative at Teheran, for his friendly intervention in Bagdasarian’s behalf.

Respectfully, yours,

William R. Day.