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. 888.111/69.]

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams.—Paraphrases]

American Legation,
Port au Prince, May 21, 1912.

On May 18 the French war vessel Descartes arrived here and will remain pending the settlement of the Syrian question, as I am told by an employee of the French Legation, which is protecting Turkish interests. The Haitian Government seems determined to close, on May 31, all stores operated by Syrians, Ottoman subjects.

Furniss.