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.)