Mr. Leishman to Mr. Hay.
Constantinople, October 6, 1903.
(Mr. Leishman reports that the outlook in Macedonia continues gloomy, and that daily attacks by the bands and reprisals by the troops is rapidly decimating the border districts, causing untold misery, [Page 766] although reports of massacres and numbers killed are grossly exaggerated; that the American missionaries are anxious for him to request the President to make an appeal to the public for subscriptions, but that he is of the opinion that such action would be premature at present and should be postponed until order has been restored, as action now might be construed as assisting the revolutionists and meet with ill feeling and obstruction.)