Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, The World War

File No. 867.4016/115

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State ²

[Telegram]

London, September 4, 1915.
[Received 12 noon.]

2749. Your 1997, August 20, and 2026, August 26.³ British Government asks that Constantinople Embassy be informed that Egyptian Government have now agreed to give these Jews a refuge in Egypt in consideration of dangers which threaten them in Turkey. Morgenthau is requested to make necessary arrangements for their transport to Egypt and to telegraph British High Commissioner for Egypt of dates of arrival at Alexandria and approximate numbers.

American Ambassador

2. Repeated to the Ambassador in Turkey, September 7, No. 1019.
3. See footnote 1, ante, p. 977, and footnote 1, supra.