File No. 867.48/611
The Spanish Ambassador ( Riaño) to the Assistant Secretary of State ( Phillips)1
[Received May 11.]
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your note of May 4, informing me of the relief supplies which are [Page 547] on board the U. S. colliers Caesar and Sterling, the latter of which have been landed at Alexandria.
I have at once telegraphed this information to my Government.
Respecting the other supplies which you say that the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief and the Red Cross have provided and are in storage in New York, I regret to say that the Spanish Government cannot at present take into consideration sending a ship to collect them in New York, but if these supplies can be sent to Spain, every effort will be made to forward them thence, in a Spanish ship, to Asia Minor.
Believe me [etc.]
- On May 15 copies of this note were forwarded to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief and the American Red Cross.↩