File No. 367.11/172

The Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Referring to my cable of this morning,1 Smyrna also has requested presence of war vessels.2

Morgenthau
  1. Not printed. See ante, p. 66, for the telegram from Ambassador Morgenthau) transmitting pleas for the despatch of warships from the Consul General in Beirut and from President Bliss) of the American College there.
  2. Requests for the despatch of warships to Smyrna for the protection of American commercial interests were also addressed to the Department on August 17 by two large companies interested in the importation, respectively, of tobacco and licorice root (File Nos. 367.11/188,189).