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, September 14, 1903.

(Mr. Leishman states that the consul at Beirut reports that, owing to the vigorous action of the new governor-general, confidence is being gradually restored; that the chief of police and also the police officer who made the false report on the attempted assassination have been dismissed.)