Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 367.114M69/178.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

No. 337.]

American Embassy,
Constantinople, December 2, 1912.

Sir: In continuation of my despatch No. 316 of the 14th ultimo, I now have the honor to transmit a copy of the Porte’s reply, of yesterday’s date.

I have [etc.]

W. W. Rockhill.

[Inclosure—Note verbale—Translation.]

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the American Embassy.

Sublime Porte,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Constantinople, December 1, 1912.

The Imperial Ministry for Foreign Affairs has had the honor to receive from the Embassy of the United States of America its note verbale No. 152, of November 13, 1912, concerning the conviction of the captain of the steamship Texas by the Ottoman Court at Smyrna.

The Imperial Ministry regrets that it is unable to modify its previous communications on this subject, and at the same time calls attention to the fact that the accident in question took place in Ottoman waters and not elsewhere, which renders indisputable the competency of the Ottoman courts in the case.