Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 367.11/16.

The American Ambassador to Great Britain to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
London, November 9, 1912.

The Under Secretary in Chargé of Near Eastern affairs says that the British Embassy was instructed November 6 to extend protection in their discretion to Americans; he took note of your request of November 8 that commanders of British vessels in Turkish waters receive similar instructions.

Reid.