Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 868.001 G 29/2.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Athens, March 18, 1913.

Reports that King George was shot and killed this afternoon at Saloniki. While walking with an aide de camp a Greek socialist shot him through the heart from behind a wall. The Queen will return to Saloniki tonight from Athens where she just arrived.

Schurman.