Show Per Pter P r Refu al York Nov 24 2 IO car S Straw r r to Turkey declines to saT say n I about alot the pottes action in hi inn II l a n for or a CU United at tee I at I I j 1 IU dl should Id come comae tI j del Another Aw I who ho has bas spent years in the diplomatic service seni said s id The uThe Turkish authorities look with jealousy upon the appointment of con consuls bUls to interior points in the empire and especially when as in the present n sent instance the United States wish to send a consul to a point where it has not had a consul before The UTh reason perhaps why the Tur Turkish Turkish kish authorities more specifically ob oh object jeer jeet to the appointment of or a consul at Harpoot is that it was at Harpoot that the American missionary property was destroyed during the Armenian troubles on the loss of o which our claims for indemnity are based America has bas no commerce at Har Harpoot Harpool HarpooL pool Its Ita interests there are only mis missionary mi as u in that city is located the college besides several mission mis ion schools and it is a center for the American missionaries but it can be reasonably claimed by our government even if we have hae little or no commerce there no now that we may want to cultivate it and ande especially e as a number of our citizens are resident there Heretofore such suche consular e business as the United States had at Harpoot has ha been n conducted by bythe bythe bythe the British vice consul there |