Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 367.11/55.

The Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of State.

Navy Department,
Washington, November 16, 1912.

Sir: I have the honor to inform the Department of State that the U. S. S. Brutus, a naval auxiliary, will leave Norfolk, Va., about November 20th, or shortly thereafter, for Smyrna, Turkey, with coal and supplies for naval vessels in the vicinity. The Brutus will call at Gibralter en route.

Respectfully yours,

Geo. von L. Meyer.