Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 10044/167.

Ambassador Leishman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Pera, April 27, 1909.

Mr. Leishman says the Sultan has been dethroned, and that his brother, Rechad, who will reign under the name of Mohammed Fifth, has been placed on the throne.