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

File No. 704.6712/8.

Ambassador Morgenthau to the Secretary of State.

No. 317.]

American Embassy,
Constantinople, May 31, 1915.

Sir: Referring to the Department’s telegraphic instruction No. 598 of April 19, 1915, in regard to the protection of Ottoman interests in Mexico by the American diplomatic and consular officials in that country, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the reply of the Ottoman Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the note of the Embassy based on the aforementioned instruction of the Department.

I have [etc.]

H. Morgenthau.

[Inclosure—Translation.]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the American Embassy.

Sublime Porte,
Constantinople, May 29, 1915.

In reply to the note verbale which the Embassy of the United States of America was pleased to address to it under date of April 21 last, No. 268, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the honor to inform it that it has just asked the German Government to take under its protection Ottoman subjects and interests in the city of Mexico, until the Government of the Republic shall there have a representative.

The Imperial Ministry therefore asks the Embassy of the Republic to kindly have given, if that has not already been done, instructions to the American consuls in the other cities of Mexico to undertake the protection of Ottoman subjects living in their districts.