Office of the Historian

Mr. Dodge to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
Berlin, November 28, 1902.
No. 2153.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that the following telegram was published this morning by the semiofficial Wolff telegraphic bureau:

The Kieler Zeitung announces that the Imperial department of the navy has sent telegraphic orders for the three cruisers Amazone, Ariadne, and Niobe to be immediately got ready for service in Venezuela. The necessary orders for supplies were given last evening. The ships will be ready to sail by the middle of next week.

The ships in question are all small cruisers, and added to the six German ships already in South American waters, will give to Germany a squadron of ten cruisers there, including the two school ships.

I have, etc.,

H. Percival Dodge.