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. 10044/250.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Reid.

Department of State,
Washington, June 9, 1909.

No. 1020.]

Sir: In his dispatch No. 973 of the 20th ultimo, reporting in regard to affairs in the Adana and Aleppo districts, the American ambassador at Constantinople refers in high terms to the assistance rendered American citizens in that region by the British vice consul, Maj. Doughty-Wylie.

I shall, therefore, be pleased to have you convey to His Majesty’s Government an appropriate expression of this Government’s appreciation of the aid extended to its citizens by Maj. Doughty-Wylie.

I am, etc.,

P. C. Knox.