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 18, 1903.

(Mr. Leishman reports that the acting governor of Beirut has not been permanently appointed, and that Halel Pasha, governor of Broussa, has exchanged places with the dismissed governor of Beirut; that objections were made to Reshid Pasha being reappointed undersecretary of the interior, but no objection will be made to his appointment to Broussa.)