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. 21558/9.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Straus.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 1, 1909.

Mr. Knox acknowledges embassy’s telegram of October 30, and informs Mr. Straus that the department was advised on October 31 that the minister for foreign affairs stated that no request had been received from the Turkish Government to prosecute Rizk in Egypt; that such prosecution was impossible under the Egyptian law, as Rizk was not an Egyptian local subject and that orders had been given to send him to Constantinople for action by the Turkish Government.