No. 646.
Mr. Wallace to Mr.
Frelinghuysen.
Legation of
the United States,
Constantinople, February 28, 1885.
(Received March 17.)
No. 479.]Sir: I have the honor to transmit to the Department
a copy of a note which will be sent to the Sublime Porte to-day.
The subject is the affair of Dr. Pflaum. Your instructions seemed to
contemplate the allowance of a reasonable time for the Turkish authorities
to offer compensation to the injured party for the wrongs done him. In my
judgment, the time elapsed since the receipt of the communication of the
minister of foreign affairs containing his admission in the case has been
amply sufficient for the purpose.
I am, &c.,
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[Inclosure in No. 479.]
Mr. Wallace to
Assim Pasha.
Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, February 27,
1885.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge
receipt of your note No. 77172, 1, and dated the 7th of last January, in
which you were pleased to acknowledge the discovery of irregularities in
the treatment of Br. Pflaum, an American citizen, whose case has been
already a subject of correspondence between your excellency’s ministry
and this legation. You were also good enough to inform me in the same
communication that two officials concerned in that affair had been
removed and another one reprimanded.
In the judgment of the Department of State, to which I transmitted your
note, it would seem fitting that the admission of the said discovery of
irregularities in the treatment of Dr. Pflaum, should be followed up by
an immediate offer on the part of the Sublime Porte to make due
reparation for the wrongs inflicted upon him. No such offer having been
made, however, I am under the necessity, following my instructions, to
renew the demand heretofore made for indemnity in behalf of the
unfortunate citizen mentioned. You will greatly oblige me by answering
this communication at your earliest convenience.
I seize, &c.,
