Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 704.6712/1.

The Secretary of State to the American Consular Officers in Mexico.

[Circular.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 9, 1915.

Sir: The Department has received a note, dated December 7, 1914, from the Turkish Ambassador Washington, D. C., expressing the desire of his Government, pending the appointment of an Ottoman consular agent, to place the interests of the Ottoman subjects residing in Mexico in the hands of the American diplomatic and consular representatives in that Republic.

You are instructed, in compliance with this request, to use your unofficial good offices in behalf of Ottoman subjects in your consular district in accordance with the principles set forth in Paragraph 174 of the Consular Regulations.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Wilbur J. Carr.