File No. 711.5914/113
The Secretary of State to the Danish Minister
Washington, August 21, 1916.
In your note of March 2, 1916, enclosure number one; last paragraph, I find the following:
According to the Government’s account for 1914–15, page 296, the Danish Government’s Treasury has to its credit in the West India colonial funds (banks), according to an intermediate calculation of March 31, 1915, the sum of 79,671.60 kronen, the government’s own balance being 110,902.16 kronen.
Please telegraph me at earliest moment meaning of “the government’s own balance being 110,902.16 kronen.” Does this represent the amount due the colonial treasuries according to the Danish Government’s account or does it mean that the account of the Danish Government and the account of the colonial treasuries are in disagreement in respect to the two sums mentioned?