Office of the Historian

841.857/28

The Secretary of State to President Wilson

Washington, September 9, 1915.

My Dear Mr. President: I enclose to you three letters which I have received today from the German Ambassador, and to which I have made no reply.51 Please return them at your earliest convenience.

Faithfully yours,

Robert Lansing
[Enclosure]

The German Ambassador (Bernstorff) to the Secretary of State

Cedarhurst, N. Y., September 8, 1915.
[Received September 9.]

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have just received the following wireless message from Berlin:

“According to information available here it seems highly improbable that Hesperian was torpedoed. Much more likely boat ran on mine. Foreign Office.”

I remain [etc.]

J. Bernstorff
  1. Two of these letters are printed in Foreign Relations, 1915, supp., pp. 538, 540; the third is printed infra.↩