The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)1
4044. Count Tarnowski, appointed Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to United States, accompanied by his wife, together with Secretary of Legation, Baron Sommaruga; valet, Peter Wiacek; footman, Stanislaus Drobniak; cook, Viktor Loboda; as well as two or three female servants and probably servant of Baron Sommaruga, name as yet unknown, will embark for United States at Rotterdam December 16 on board S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, Holland-America Line. Austro-Hungarian Government requests that safe-conducts may be procured from Governments of Great Britain and France for persons in question and their baggage. Make known to Foreign Office, to end that naval authorities be instructed to pass them and baggage safely. Embassy, Paris, similarly instructed.
- The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Ambassador in France (No. 1827).↩