Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

The German Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Imperial German Embassy,
Washington, November 29, 1905.

Mr. Secretary of State: I had the honor to inform your excellency in my verbal note of the 4th instant,^a with a statement of the grounds therefor, that the Imperial Government is constrained to terminate the German-American commercial agreement of July 10, 1900, at the close of the 28th day of February, 1906. I communicated at the same time my Government’s proposal to enter into negotiations for the conclusion of a new treaty.

With reference thereto I have the honor, in pursuance of instructions received, to give the three months’ notice terminating on the 1st of March, 1906, the commercial agreement between the German Empire and the United States of July 10, 1900, in accordance with section III of the same.

I have respectfully to beg that your excellency will acknowledge the receipt of this notice of termination.

Accept, etc.,

Sternburg.

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