Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/6523

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page)

[Telegram]
Washington, August 15, 1917, 6 p.m.

5307. You may confidentially inform British Government that Admiral H. T. Mayo, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, will sail from New York for London on the St. Louis on August 18, accompanied by Commander O. P. Jackson, chief of staff, Atlantic Fleet; Lieut. Commander E. J. King, assistant to chief of staff; Lieut. Commander D. C. Bingham, fleet gunnery officer; Lieut. Commander A. B. Cook, flag lieutenant; Lieut. Commander Leigh Noyes, flag secretary; Lieut. H. W. McCormack, fleet radio officer; Naval Constructor W. G. DuBose, fleet naval constructor, and Paymaster J. F. Hatch.

Say to the British Government that the Navy Department is proceeding on the assumption that Great Britain has extended invitations to Italy and France and that their representatives have been designated. The Navy Department hopes that the date of the meeting of the conference1 will be fixed before the arrival of Admiral Mayo in Great Britain.

Lansing
  1. See telegrams No. 5221 to the Ambassador in Great Britain and No. 6861 from the Ambassador, ante, p. 151.↩