Consul-General Iddings to
the Assistant Secretary of
State.
[Extract.]
American Agency and Consulate-General,
Cairo, Egypt, December 16, 1906.
No. 147.]
Sir: I have the honor to confirm herein the
telegram sent to you by me on November 26a last, and your reply received December 1.a
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I received from the Egyptian government the note dated December 6, of
which I forward a copy, with translation, attaching to it copy of my
reply, dated December 8. I have called formally on Mr. Alban to express
my regret that he should be attacked as he has been by an American
citizen.
Awaiting your further instructions, I have, etc.,
[Inclosure
1.—Translation.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to Consul-General
Iddings.
Cairo, December 6,
1906.
No. 853.]
Sir: The attention of the government has
been for some time attracted by the actions of a certain individual
who calls himself Captain Waldberg and claims to be an American
citizen.
This person publishes in Cairo a paper entitled “The Oriental Truth,”
in which he has repeatedly printed the gravest imputations and
calumnies, as grave as they are false, against British
functionaries, more especially against the consular tribunal of
Great Britain in Cairo, which has been attacked in a virulent manner
in consequence of a sentence passed by this tribunal at a recent
trial for assault and battery against a British subject by the
aforesaid Captain Waldberg.
I have thought it my duty to bring these facts to your knowledge,
leaving it to your discretion to take such measures as you consider
proper to put an end to this procedure.
Pray accept, etc.,
[Inclosure 2.]
Consul-General
Iddings to the Minister for Foreign
Affairs.
American Consulate-General,
Cairo, December 8,
1906.
Monsieur le Ministre: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your note of December 6, 1906, calling my
attention to the conduct of an American citizen of Cairo, Captain
Waldberg. It is a matter of profound regret to me that a compatriot
should lay himself open to so grave an accusation as Captain
Waldberg has done.
His procedures had already engaged my consideration when your note
was received, and so far as possible I will correct them.
Pray accept, etc.,
