125.981/57: Telegram

The Consul General at Warsaw (Davis) to the Secretary of State10

4. No reply received to Consulate General’s telegrams of past week. Although Warsaw bombarded no casualties as yet among officers and 80 persons who have taken refuge in Embassy including 50 women and children. Consulate General remaining in Embassy whose protective facilities are poor but no better refuge available or reachable. Please inform Bark.11 Also inform missions where officers’ wives residing that husbands are well.

Davis
  1. The text of this telegram was sent by the Department on September 16 to the Ambassador in Germany (No. 522), to the Minister in Rumania (No. 122), and to the Minister in Norway (No. 38) with instructions to repeat to the Minister In Denmark.
  2. Alexander C. Kirk, American Chargé in Germany.