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. 10044/157.

The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Carter.

Department of State,
Washington, May 1, 1909.

No. 984.]

Sir: The department desires you to make appropriate formal expression of thanks to the British Government, on the part of this Government, for the friendly action of His Majesty’s Government in instructing British naval vessels in Turkish waters to afford the same protection to American citizens as to British subjects in the disturbed regions of Asiatic Turkey, pending the arrival of the armored cruisers which this Government has dispatched to Alexandretta and Mersine.

I am, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.