Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 10044/141.

Ambassador Leishman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Pera, April 16, 1909.

Mr. Leishman says recent uprising in Constantinople is having sequel in other districts and that further trouble seems to be brewing. He adds that massacres at Adana, where there is an American missionary establishment, have been reported, but that he has not been able to confirm the report that two Americans have been killed.