Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hay to Mr. Griscom.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 23, 1900.

[Mr. Hay directs Mr. Griscom to officially communicate to the minister for foreign affairs and unofficially to the palace that the President relies upon the Turkish Government promptly paying £20,000 indemnity for value of property of American citizens destroyed in 1895. Promise of payment made in December, 1898, should be fulfilled without further postponement, and when irade is issued to cable the Department.]