Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part II

Mr. Terrell to Mr. Gresham.

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, April 21, 1895. (Received May 6.)

No. 512.]

Sir: In answer to your No. 409, of April 4, regarding an apprehended massacre of Christians in Turkey, and the proposed visit of the Marblehead to Smyrna, Alexandretta, and Beirut, I have to inform you that for the last three weeks tranquility seems to exist in the provinces, and I see no cause to fear present danger. The pledges given me for energetic official action, I feel sure, have been complied with.

I have, etc.,

A. W. Terrell.