File No. 763.72111/4127
The Minister in Denmark (Egan) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11.50 p. m.]
368. Your circular, October 10, 1 p. m.1 Danish Government have issued no decrees or decisions concerning war submarines except as contained in its law of December 20, 1912, the substance of which is that war submarines shall be treated as other war vessels. The law follows closely the, principles of the convention of The Hague. The question of merchant submarines has not arisen and the Government is not willing to give a decision until that question shall arise.
This statement is practically the same as contained in the reply of the Danish Government dated October 6 to the Allies’ collective note of August 27. 1 am forwarding by mail a copy of note which, at the request of the Danish Government, is to be treated as strictly confidential.