Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72115/332

The Ambassador in Turkey ( Morgenthau ) to the Secretary of State ³

American Embassy,
Constantinople , December 18, 1914, 11 p.m.
[Received December 19, 8 a.m.]

[Telegram]

183. In answer to my inquiry Hollis telegraphs deportation of French and British, Russian male subjects from Lebanon to Damascus has begun; approximately 200 French, English men deported from Beirut no women and children have been deported.

Have just been informed no trains permitted to depart to-morrow.

Why do your messages to me have to be relayed at Rome while mine go direct from here to Washington?

American Ambassador

3. Repeated December 19, with omission of last paragraph, to the ambassadors in Great Britain, France, and Russia, omitting in the telegram to Russia, “Approximately 200 French, English men deported from Beirut.”