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. 10044/161.

Ambassador Reid to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
London, April 25, 1909.

Mr. Reid refers to department’s telegram of April 23, and says he is assured that the British ships sent to Turkish waters will be adequate for the protection of life and that the commanders will be instructed to protect American citizens as well as British subjects. He adds that representations relative to Armenian massacres have been made by Great Britain to the Turkish Government and that latter had promised to do all in its power to prevent further slaughter, and to that end had dispatched troops to disturbed districts.