Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 3058/7–A.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Leishman.

Department of State,
Washington, August 31, 1908.

No. 417.]

Sir: To enable the department to answer inquiries on the subject, you are requested to report, in view of the new political conditions existing in Turkey, whether there has been, or probably will be, any change in the attitude of the Turkish Government in the matters of assessment of personal taxes in Turkey against former Ottoman subjects, and the emigration of their relatives other than wives and minor children.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.