File No. 704.6712/11.
The Secretary of State to the Chargé d’Affaires of Turkey.
Washington, July 9, 1915.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of June 26, stating in reply to one from the Department, that you have no knowledge of the designation of the German Consul at San Luis Potosí, Mexico, to protect Ottoman interests in any part of his district, and that, so far as you are informed, the interests of Ottoman subjects in every part of Mexico have been placed in the care of the United States.
In this connection, I enclose herewith copies of a despatch from the American Consul at Aguascalientes, in regard to the confiscation of property belonging to the Ottoman subject Nicolás Allende, and its enclosure, a letter from General Francisco Villa, in which he declines to recognize the Consul’s right to act for Mr. Allende, and states that the matter should be taken up by a consular or diplomatic representative of the Ottoman Empire.
The Department would be glad to be informed whether the Ottoman Government has any diplomatic or consular representative in Mexico, and to receive an expression of the wishes of the Imperial Ottoman Embassy regarding the representations to be made in the case of Mr. Allende.
Accept [etc.]