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. 10044/145.

Ambassador Leishman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Pera, April 19, 1909.

Mr. Leishman says that while the situation at Adana is calmer, similar trouble is extending to the neighboring districts; that about 20,000 troops of the Third Army Corps, which is supporting the constitution, are within 20 miles of Constantinople and more arriving hourly. Mr. Leishman adds that the mutinous troops of the capital and reactionary instigators of the recent revolt fear the consequences of their action and are greatly alarmed.