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

File No. 867.4016/101

The Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Constantinople, August 20, 1915, 8 p. m.
[Received August 23, 9.15 a. m.]

950. Your 955. German Ambassador’s protest has not improved conditions in the interior. Instructions from German Government to their Ambassador to demand from the Sublime Porte that these horrible deportations cease and all possible reparation be promptly made may, with other influences now being exerted, improve the situation. Bulgarians have made strong representations.

Morgenthau