Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part II

Ambassador Leishman to the Secretary of State.

[Extract.]

American Embassy,
Constantinople, October 23, 1906.

No. 68.]

Sir: With reference to my dispatch, No. 63, of the 18th instant, in which I had the honor to inform you of the difficulties experienced by Mr. Fowle and Mr. MacDowell, two of our missionaries, while traveling in the interior of Turkey, I beg to inform the department that I am in receipt of the following telegram from Mr. Fowle, informing me that the awaited permission has been granted him:

With the permission of the local authority I am going to Istanos and we are thankful to you.

Fowle.

It is peculiarly gratifying to the embassy that the exercise of a patient pressure sufficed to bring about this result.

I have, etc.,

John G. A. Leishman.