Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part II

File No. 4960/77.

Ambassador Leishman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Yenikeny, June 15, 1907.

No. 48. Beferring to the fifth demand in his telegram of April 10, reports the satisfactory settlement of the Manoukian case,^a which has been so long pending, and which involved the recognition by the Sublime Porte of our consular courts as alone competent to decide as to legal heirs of an American citizen.

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