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

Baron Fava to Mr. Hay.

[Translation.]

Washington, July 30, 1900.

Mr. Secretary of State: With the most intense grief I discharge the sad duty of announcing to your excellency that His Majesty King Humbert died last night, the 29th instant, a victim of an infamous assault.

I have the honor to beg your excellency to be pleased to impart this mournful intelligence to the President of the United States.

His Majesty King Victor Emanuel III is now at Piresus, whence he is about to return to the Kingdom.

Accept, etc.,

Fava.