Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 711.5914/139

The Secretary of State to the Danish Minister

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, September 8, 1916.

The treaty which was signed in New York ceding the Danish West Indies to the United States was ratified by the Senate last night by a majority of about six to one. No modification was made in the text of the treaty.

Robert Lansing