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. 10044/165.

Ambassador Leishman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Pera, April 27, 1909.

Mr. Leishman requests that instructions be sent to cruisers at Gibraltar to go direct to Mersine and Alexandretta, leaving embassy free, if necessary, to send them to other points.