Office of the Historian

841.857 Athenia/1: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State

London, [undated].
[Received September 3, 1939—8:50 p.m.]

Foreign Office has just telephoned that it is releasing to press report SS Athenia of Donaldson Line torpedoed 200 miles off Malin Head with 1400 passengers aboard. S. O. S. received. Ship sinking fast.

Kennedy