Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 4116/57.

The Acting Secretary of State to the German Chargé.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 24, 1908.

The painful intelligence of the ambassador’s death was received this morning through Dr. Hill and I at once telegraphed directing the President’s condolences to be conveyed to the imperial foreign office. I also cabled directly to the Baroness von Sternberg at Heidelberg.

Alvey A. Adee.