Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 711.5914/187a

The Secretary of State to Minister Egan

[Telegrams]

Department of State,
Washington, January 6, 1917, 2 p.m.

216. Please obtain and mail at the very earliest opportunity an official map showing specifically the boundaries of the group of islands, keys and rocks in the West Indies over which Denmark claims sovereignty and which she cedes to the United States under the pending treaty. This map should be the official expression of the Government of Denmark as to the geographic limits of the Danish West Indies.

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