Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72/1143

The Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
Constantinople, October 29, 1914, 11 a.m.
[Received 12:15 p.m.]

[Telegram]

British Ambassador has just received a telegram from Cairo that Bedouins have crossed frontier on their way to Suez Canal. He writes me it may mean war unless his demand to the Grand Vizier to immediately withdraw Bedouins is complied with.

American Ambassador