862.33/236: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Leahy) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:56 p.m.]
304. M. Rochat has given us the following information in strict confidence with the evident hope that it would be transmitted for your information:
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is informed that shortly following the entry of the German submarine into Fort-de-France on February 21, the United States Naval observer there reported by cable that it had arrived to obtain assistance or supplies.
Later when he found that the submarine did not desire assistance or supplies, the Naval observer corrected his previous cable report by ‘air mail letter’.
The young officer landed at Fort-de-France for medical attention, is the son of an officer high in the German Admiralty, which probably accounts for the German insistence on providing satisfactory medical facilities. The injury is of a nature to require amputation.[”]