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File No. 367.116/170a

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

Department of State,
Washington , August 28, 1914.

[Telegram]

The North Carolina now at Falmouth has been ordered to start to-morrow for Turkish waters with $150,000 gold relief fund.1 Department has notified Straus, Schiff, and other interested parties to this effect who will probably send additional funds.

Bryan
  1. The Tennessee was sent later under similar orders.↩