File No. 704.6712/11.
The Chargé d’Affaires of Turkey to the Secretary of State.
Washington, June 26, 1915.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 15th instant enclosing copy of a despatch from the American Consul at Aguascalientes on the subject of the release, at the request of the firm of S. Bujdud Hermano & Jalife, Ottoman subjects, of ninety-four bales of cotton which had been sequestered by the Mexican Government.
As to the report contained in the despatch of the Consul as to the designation of the German Consul at San Luis Potosí to care for Ottoman interests, I beg leave to state that this Embassy has no information whatever on the subject beyond the fact that the interests of Ottoman subjects in every part of Mexico have been placed in the good care of the United States representative in that country, concerning which this Embassy has already had the honor to exchange correspondence with the Department of State and received a reply in the affirmative.
I shall lose no time in taking the matter up with the German Consul at San Luis Potosí with the view of ascertaining by whom he has been authorized to act on behalf of my countrymen within his consular jurisdiction.
I have [etc.]