Auswärtiges Amt.
Berlin, den 14. März 1916.
Abschriftlich nebst Anlage
Seiner Exzellenz dem Kaiserlichen Botschafter, Herrn Grafen Wolff-Metternich, Pera.
Zur gefälligen vertraulichen Kenntnisnahme ergebenst übersandt.
Die Note bezieht sich auf die mit Telegramm vom 23. Februar angekündigte Demarche.[126]
Zimmermann.
Embassy of the United States of America. Berlin, Germany.
Note Verbale.
Acting under instructions from its Government, the American Embassy has the honor to transmit herewith to the Imperial Foreign Office, for its information, a copy of a Note dated February 16, 1916, which the Secretary of State has delivered to the Imperial German Ambassador at Washington, relative to an instruction which the former had cabled to the American Chargé d’Affaires at Constantinople, instructing him to again urgently appeal to the sense of humanity and justice of the Turkish Government and to urge it to take immediate steps towards the amelioration of the conditions at present existing among the Armenians and towards the redress of the injuries already inflicted upon them.