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

File No. 711.5914/241a

The Secretary of State to the Danish Minister

Department of State,
Washington, March 28, 1917.

Dear Mr. Minister: Referring to that part of my personal communication to you of yesterday’s date stating that instructions had been sent to Admiral William L. Rodgers to proceed from Guantanamo to St. Thomas to take over the Danish West Indian Islands in the name of this Government, I beg now to inform you that, it having been found impossible to get into communication with Admiral Rodgers, Commander Edwin T. Pollock, United States Navy, has been substituted for this service in place of Admiral Rodgers, and that Commander Pollock left Haiti last night for St. Thomas.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing