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. 21558/15–16.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Straus.

Department of State,
Washington, December 3, 1909.

No. 40]

Sir: The department has received your No. 36 of the 12th ultimo, transmitting a copy of your note verbale of October 22 to the Sublime Porte concerning the case of Memar Rizk, a Turkish subject, who murdered another Turk in New Jersey and escaped to Egypt.

In reply you are referred to the department’s no 26 of the 8th ultimo, which appears to cover the points involved in your discussion of the case.

For

Mr. Knox

:

Huntington Wilson.