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

File No. 838.51/408.

Chargé Davis to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Extract.]

American Legation,
Port au Prince, August 18, 1915—10 p.m.

Pursuant to your instructions, draft of treaty was placed before the President yesterday afternoon and the need for expedition urged. The President gave assurance that action would be taken with all possible dispatch.

Davis.