File No. 881.00/608.
The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Sharp.
Washington, December 29, 1915.
Sir: The Department herewith encloses to you a copy of a despatch dated December 8, No. 506, from the American Chargé at Tangier, relative to the decision of the French Resident General in Morocco that certain cases hitherto tried before the civil courts shall be tried before the French military courts, even in cases where the persons concerned are citizens of a capitulatory country.
In order to prevent any waiver by the United States of its rights in Morocco, you will call the attention of the French Government to this action of the French Resident General in Morocco and protest against it in so far as it affects citizens of the United States.
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