Office of the Historian

File No. 12655/369.

The Acting Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, July 21, 1909.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 178, of the 13th instant, wherein, under instructions from His Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, you advise the department that the declaration of London of February 26, 1909, was signed at the foreign office on the 29th ultimo on behalf of Russia by Baron de Taube; and that the declaration has now been signed on behalf of all the powers which took part in the London naval conference.

Thanking you for this information,

I have, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.