893.00/11248

The German Chargé (Kiep) to the Secretary of State

[Translation1]

Mr. Secretary of State: Under instructions of my Government, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency as follows:

From reports received at Berlin regarding the troubles occurring at the end of July and beginning of August in the Chinese city of Changsha, it appears that the rescue of a large part of the German citizens living in Changsha is due to the solicitude and energetic assistance of the American naval forces stationed there. Especially did the American gunboat Palos most magnanimously concern itself in behalf of the hardpressed Germans by granting them refuge.

I have therefore been charged with the honorable duty of expressing the most sincere thanks of the German Government to the American Government for the help thus afforded, while at the same time requesting that these thanks be conveyed also to the American naval forces which participated in the act.

Please [etc.]

Kiep
  1. File translation revised.