Ambassador Tower to
the Acting Secretary of State.
American Embassy,
Berlin, July 12,
1905.
No. 714.]Sir: Upon the receipt of Mr. Peirce’s telegram
of the 1st of July, 1905, announcing the death of Mr. Hay, Secretary of
State, on the 30th of June, I addressed a note to Baron von Richthofen,
imperial secretary of state for foreign affairs, communicating to him
this sad intelligence, and I now have the honor to inclose to you
herewith a copy and
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a
translation into English of a note which I have received from Baron von
Richthofen in reply, in which he conveys the sympathy of the Imperial
Government in the great loss which the Government of the United States
has sustained through the death of so worthy a statesman as Mr. Hay and
one possessed of such brilliant qualities.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to Ambassador Tower.
The undersigned has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note,
dated July 3, 1905, from His Excellency Mr. Charlemagne Tower,
ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of
America, which contained the confirmation of the sad news of the
death, on the 30th of June, 1905, of Mr. John Hay, Secretary of
State.
The undersigned cannot refrain from taking the opportunity to express
to his excellency the ambassador the sincere sympathy of the
Imperial Government in the great loss which the Government of the
United States of America and the whole American people have
sustained through the sudden death of so worthy a statesman and one
possessed of such brilliant qualities.
The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to renew, etc.
