File No. 704.6712/1.

The Secretary of State to the Chargé d’Affaires of Turkey.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 7th ultimo, in which you request, on behalf of your Government, that, in the absence of diplomatic or consular representation of the Ottoman Government in Mexico, the interests of Ottoman subjects residing in that country may be placed in the hands of the officers of the United States there.

In reply I beg to inform you that it has given this Government pleasure to instruct its officers in Mexico to use their unofficial good offices in behalf of Ottoman subjects who may require them, in accordance with the principles set forth in Paragraph 174 of the Consular Regulations of the United States,5 a copy of which I have the honor to enclose herewith.

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Robert Lansing.
  1. See the text in the memorandum of May 7, p. 1077.