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

File No. 765.003.

The Secretary of State to the American Ambassador at Constantinople.

No. 231.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 1, 1913.

Sir: Supplementing the instruction (No. 206) of December 5th last² with which there was enclosed for your information certain correspondence in regard to the recognition of Italian sovereignty over Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, I now enclose for your further information a copy of an instruction under today’s date to the Embassy at Rome, together with its enclosures, on the subject of the relinquishment of extraterritorial rights in Libya.

You will bring to the attention of the Consul General at Constantinople the fact that the Consulate at Tripoli will henceforth be administered as subordinate to the Consulate General at Genoa.

I am [etc.]

P. C. Knox.

2. Not printed.