Office of the Historian

667.003/139: Telegram

The High Commissioner at Constantinople (Bristol) to the Secretary of State

Constantinople, August 18, 1921—3 p.m.
[Received August 19—6:13 a.m.]

232. Urgently request instructions concerning taxation plan set forth in my 221, July 23, 12 a.m. [July 24, noon]. Reports now current that on September 1st Ottoman Government intends to put into effect 11 percent ad valorem system plus consumption taxes. Refer to Department’s 86, November 15, 6 p.m.18

Bristol
  1. Foreign Relations, 1920, vol. iii, p. 765.↩