Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 312.67/29.

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

The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Turkish Chargé d’Affaires and, referring to his note of March 30, 1915, in regard to the seizure at Chihuahua, Mexico, of the properties of J. E. Touche, an Ottoman Syrian, has the honor to inform the Turkish Chargé d’Affaires that the Department has today instructed Mr. George C. Carothers to request General Francisco Villa to order the restoration to the owner of the properties mentioned.

W. J. Bryan.

Department of State,
Washington , April 3, 1915.