File No. 704.6712/1.
The Chargé d’Affaires of Turkey to the Secretary of State.
Washington, December 7, 1914.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that my Government is desirous, pending the appointment of an Ottoman consular agent, to place the interests of the Ottoman subjects residing in Mexico in the hands of the United States diplomatic and consular representatives in that Republic.
I shall be glad to know if the Government of the United States will extend its courtesy to the Imperial Ottoman Government in this matter. I understand that the United States Ambassador in Constantinople has already received a telegraphic reply in the affirmative from the Department of State to his enquiry on this subject, so that I shall be happy to communicate also a favorable reply of the State Department to my Government.
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