File No. 21558/9.
Consul-General Iddings to the Secretary of State.
Cairo, October 31, 1909.
Mr. Iddings says he is informed by the minister for foreign affairs that it is impossible to try Rizk there as he is not Egyptian local subject, and cites penal code native tribunals title 1, chapter 1, rule 3. Mr. Iddings says that he has been informed that orders have been given to send Rizk, who is under police supervision at present, to Constantinople immediately for such action as the Turkish Government may decide. Says that up to 11 o’clock a.m. to-day the minister for foreign affairs had received no request from the grand vizier to prosecute Rizk in Egypt, though Mr. Straus had informed the consulate that the grand vizier had telegraphed such a request the day before.