Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

Chargé Jay to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Constantinople, February 23, 1905.

No. 997.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your instruction, No. 761, of the 7th instant, on the subject of the recent interference with Bible colportage in Turkey.

I have the pleasure to report that, since the writing of my dispatch of January 5 in this connection, there have been no further cases of interference with colporteurs reported up to date to this legation or to the British embassy.

I succeeded in January in securing the immediate and unconditional surrender of the Bibles seized at various points in the Empire.

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I have, etc.,

Peter Augustus Jay.