File No. 711.5914/110
The Danish Minister to the Secretary of State
Bar Harbor, August 22, 1916.
Your telegram August 21st. The paragraph you mention has been incorrectly translated. I beg to offer the following as a correct translation: [Page 659]
According to the accounts of receipts and expenditures of the Government (of Denmark) for 1914–15, page 295, the Danish Government Treasury has to its credit with the West India colonial treasuries, in accordance with the current account between them as made up per March 31, 1915, the sum of 79,671.60 kroner and its own cash balance with the Guvernement (of the Danish West India Islands) amounting to 110,902.16 kroner.
The Government of the islands has always been designated by the foreign word the guvernement. I believe this translation will make the meaning perfectly clear.