Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 367.11/7B.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 4, 1912.

The conditions at Constantinople described in your telegram of October 31 are naturally creating anxiety here. It is assumed that you would, if occasion arise, find it possible to arrange for extension by the naval forces of the friendly neutral Powers of adequate protection of such American citizens as can not be accommodated on the [station ship] Scorpion. There is no available American vessel nearer than our own shores.

Adee.