Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Leishman to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, July 31, 1903.

(Mr. Leishman reports that after exhausting every ordinary means to force the Sublime Porte to conclude the promised settling of the school and other matters he feels compelled to ask the Department of State for further instructions, as it appears useless for him to attempt to prosecute matters further on present lines, and unless some more forcible measure be adopted he fears the promised settlement of the school question will drag on indefinitely.)