Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Leishman to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Pera, June 11, 1904.

(Mr. Leishman reports that advices have reached him that the Kurds have broken loose from all restraint, and are, in retaliation for the depredations committed by the revolutionists, destroying villages in the Moush district, and that several hundred Armenians have been killed. The British, French, and Russian embassies have made strong joint representations to the Porte, and efforts are being made to prevent the trouble from spreading.)