Office of the Historian

File No. 867.48/517

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

[Telegram]
Constantinople, January 8, 1917, noon.
[Received January 10, 8 a.m.]

2387. Djemal Pasha1 requests that three-fourths of Caesar’s supplies be landed at Beirut for distribution to Palestine poor and one-fourth at Jaffa.2 Does Department approve?

Elkus
  1. Turkish Minister of Marine.↩
  2. See Department’s circular telegram of Dec. 19, 1916, Foreign Relations, 1916, Supplement, p. 940.↩