File No. 867.4016/281
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Turkey (Philip)
[Telegram]
Washington,
May 24, 1916, 6 p. m.
2600. Department’s 2484, May 9, 4 p. m. Department has received further information from French Ambassador relative to serious conditions Syria. Investigate this matter promptly, and if information secured by you agrees with that furnished by the French Ambassador, you are instructed, at once, without waiting for further word from the Department, to urge the Ottoman Government to take steps for the protection of Christians in Syria.
Polk