Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1916, Supplement, The World War

File No. 704.0067/16

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Turkey ( Philip )

Washington , March 15, 1916 .

Sir: The Department has received your Embassy’s despatch No. 826,¹ of January 4, 1916, in which you enclosed a complete set of all the notes verbales addressed by your Embassy to the Sublime Porte since the participation of Turkey in the European war, on the subject of violations of belligerent consular premises under the care of this Government by the Ottoman authorities in various cities in Turkey.

In reply you are informed that the Department approves the action taken in making protests in cases of the kind referred to in the despatch under acknowledgment.

I am [etc.]

For the Acting Secretary of State:

John E. Osborne

1. Ante, p. 815.