File No. 763.72/489
The Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State
Constantinople, August 17, 1914, 3 p.m.
[Received August 18, 9 a.m.]
[Telegram]
Minister of the Interior and Speaker of Chamber have gone to Bucharest. Grand Vizier told me that they had gone in his place to meet representative of Greece to come to arrangement but it is believed generally that object of visit is to enter into some compact with Roumania and Bulgaria. Minister of Commerce inquired whether Americans could be induced that [to?] ship provisions and printing paper, supply of which is exhausted; that Turkish Government being ready to obligate themselves, they will not requisition any part of the cargoes without paying cash for what they take. They greatly fear a dire famine unless relief comes from America or comes from India in English vessels.