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. 767.70/126.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams.—Paraphrases.]

American Embassy,
Constantinople, November 17, 1912.

The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps has just gone to advise the Minister for Foreign Affairs that, in view of the failure of the Turkish Government to state its opinion on the subject within the time agreed upon, the Diplomatic Corps has decided to land about 2,000 men tomorrow to protect the Embassies and Legations.

Rockhill.