DEATH OF KING FREDERIK VIII, AND ACCESSION OF File No. 859.001F87/4.] The Minister of Denmark to the Secretary of State. LEGATION OF DENMARK, Washington, May 15, 1912. MR. SECRETARY OF STATE: I have the honor to fulfill the painful duty of informing your excellency that His Majesty my August Sovereign, King Frederik the VIII, died last night in the city of Hamburg (Germany), while on a journey to regain His health. Please accept [etc.] C. MOLTKE. The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister of Denmark. No. 164.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, May 15, 1912. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of this day's date by which you officially convey the sad intelligence of the death last evening at Hamburg of His late Majesty, King Frederik VIII. The President, to whom the information has been conveyed, has, in a telegram to King Christian X, expressed the deep sympathy of the people and Government of the United States in this sad bereavement which has befallen the people of your country, as well as his personal sympathy and heartfelt wishes for the continued prosperity of the Danish people under King Christian's reign. Accept, Sir, [etc.] File No. 859.001F87/6A.] HUNTINGTON WILSON. The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister. [Telegram. Paraphrase.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, May 15, 1912. A telegraphic message of sympathy has been sent by the President to His Majesty King Christian. You will suitably express to the Minister for Foreign Affairs the sympathy of the Secretary of State. You will send a wreath to the funeral services, in the name of the President. File No. 859.001F87/6.] WILSON. The King of Denmark to the President of the United States. [Telegram.] LYNGBY, May 16, 1912. I am most grateful for your kind expression of sympathy in the profound grief caused by the death of the King, my deeply lamented father. CHRISTIAN R. File No. 859.001F87/7.] The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d'Affaires. In view of the absence of Mr. Egan and impossibility of sending a Special Representative, owing to lack of time, you will consider this your credentials as Special Envoy for the funeral ceremonies. Explain situation to Foreign Office. KNOX. File No. 859.001F87/10.] The Minister of Denmark to the Secretary of State. LEGATION OF DENMARK, Washington, July 9th, 1912. Mr. SECRETARY OF STATE: By direction of my Government I have herewith the honor to transmit to your excellency the letter in original and copy, by which His Majesty my August Sovereign notifies His succession to the Throne and the death of His Majesty King Frederik VIII, to the President of the United States. I have the honor to request that your excellency will be so good as to cause this letter to be laid before the President. Please accept [etc.]. C. MOLTKE. [Inclosure.] The King of Denmark to the President of the United States. GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND: I comply with the saddest of duties in announcing to You the death of my well-beloved and deeply venerated Father, King Frederik VIII, suddenly deceased at Hamburg the 14th of last May in His 69th year, after a reign of six years. I am sure that You will sympathize with me on this sad occasion, which overwhelms me with profound sorrow and spreads mourning throughout the nation. Called, in the order of succession, to the throne of Denmark, I beg You to belief that I shall take every means of cultivating more and more the good relations that exist between Denmark and the United States of America. I seize this occasion to express to You the assurance of the esteem and friendship with which I am, Great and Good Friend, Your Sincere Friend, COPENHAGEN, June 21, 1912. File No. 859,001F87/10.] CHRISTIAN R. The Secretary of State to the Minister of Denmark. No. 173.] LEGATION OF DENMARK, SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 9th instant, with which you transmit a letter, with office copy, addressed to the President by His Majesty King Christian X., announcing his accession to the throne of Denmark. In reply I have the honor to say that His Majesty's letter has been laid before the President's [sic] whose reply will, in due course, be forwarded through the American Legation at Copenhagen. Accept [etc.] P. C. KNOX, The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister. No. 161.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, August 21, 1912. SIR: I enclose, with office copy, a letter addressed by the President to the King of Denmark, acknowledging His Majesty's letter of June 21st last, in which he informed the President of the death of King Frederik VIII, and his accession to the throne.. You will forward the copy to the Foreign Office and deliver the original in the manner most agreeable to His Majesty. I am [etc.] ALVEY A. ADEE. [Inclosure.] The President of the United States to the King of Denmark. THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, July 23, 1912. GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND: I have received the letter of the 21st of June last, in which Your Majesty informed me of the death, on the 14th of May, of your dearly beloved father, His Majesty King Frederik VIII, and your accession to the throne. In expressing my sincere and heartfelt sympathy for Your Majesty's Family and the people of Denmark in their sad bereavement, I must at the same time convey to you a knowledge of the satisfaction with which I received the announcement that you had ascended the throne, and I assure Your Majesty that your wishes for the continuance of the friendly relations subsisting between the two countries are fully appreciated and cordially reciprocated. May God have Your Majesty in His safe and holy keeping. Your Good Friend, WM. H. TAFT. PRESENTATION OF A PARK TO THE DANISH GOVERNMENT BY AMERICAN CITIZENS OF DANISH DESCENT.. File No. 859.155D22.] The Secretary to the President to the Secretary of State. THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, January 6, 1912. MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY: We are in receipt of information to the effect that Mr. Max Henius, Secretary of the Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentology of Chicago, secured options on a picturesque part of the Danish Heath in July, 1909, and that American citizens of Danish descent have subscribed $10,000 with which they have purchased 400 acres of land in Jutland, about 20 miles from the old city of Aalborg. The reservation, it appears, has been christened the "Danish-American Park," and in August, 1912, it will be dedicated to the Danish Government, to be at all times open to the public, with the stipulation that on the 4th of July of every year the park will be given over to Americans, who will hoist their country's flag for the Independence Day celebration. This festivity will occur in Copenhagen, where an American delegation will present the deed to the King of Denmark in the presence of a special representative of the United States. The suggestion has also been made that the President permit the use of his name as the Honorary President, with the understanding that Count Moltke and Dr. Egan will be the Honorary Vice Presidents. The President has asked me to send this information to you and to say that if there is no objection to this proposal on the part of your Department, he has none. Will you please let the President have your views on this subject? Sincerely yours, CHARLES D. HILLES. File No. 859.155D22/3.] The Secretary of State to the Secretary to the President. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 24, 1911.1 MY DEAR MR. HILLES: On the 6th instant you wrote me that [etc.]. In reply I beg to say that as the Department had no knowledge of the plan in question I cabled to our Minister at Copenhagen to make inquiries as to same and he now informs me that the King will be very glad to accept, in the name of the Danish Government, the gift in question. Not only can I see no objection to the President's permitting the use of his name as Honorary President of the American delegation, which will present the deed, but I think it would be in every way advisable for the President to accept. Sincerely yours, P. C. KNOX. File No. 895.155D22/5.] The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister. No. 140.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 17, 1912. SIR: The Department has read your No. 509 of January 29, 1912,2 with reference to the suggestion that the President of the United States be made the Honorary President, and Count Moltke and you Honorary Vice Presidents in connection with the presentation to Denmark of a tract of land bought by the Danish-American Society Not printed. 1 Should be 1912. in Jutland, and in reply informs you that the President has accepted the invitation of the Danish-American Society. I am [etc.]. HUNTINGTON WILSON. File No. 859.155D22/7.1 The President to the American Minister. MY DEAR MR. MINISTER: THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, July 8, 1912. On the occasion of the presentation to His Majesty King Christian of a deed to the Danish-American National Park, to take place at Marselisborg Castle on August 3rd next, I desire that you convey in my name as Honorary President of the Association and in the name of the people of the United States my warmest greeting to King Christian and to the Danish nation. It is with great pleasure that I have witnessed the action of the American citizens of Danish birth in this country in acquiring a tract of 400 acres of land near Aalborg for the purpose of establishing a Danish-American National Park to be dedicated to the Danish Government and to be at all times open to the public. I am gratified to be identified with this act in my capacity as Honorary President of the Association. I recognize in it a concrete expression of the cordial relations which have always existed between the Danish and American peoples and which are today based more firmly than ever on friendship, understanding and mutual esteem. On this happy occasion I desire you to convey to His Majesty and to the Danish people my sincere wishes for his happiness and welfare and the continued prosperity of the Danish nation. Sincerely yours, WM. H. TAFT. File No. 859.155D22/11.] No. 598. The American Minister to the Secretary of State. [Extract.] AMERICAN LEGATION, Copenhagen, August 8th, 1912. * * * SIR: I have great pleasure in reporting the success of all the ceremonies surrounding the presentation of the deed of the DanishAmerican National Park, at Rebild Hills, Denmark, to His Majesty King Christian on Sunday, August 4th, at 12 o'clock. We had made the trip to Aarhus on Saturday night, the King's country house at Marselisborg being only a short distance from this city. Their Majesties, the King and Queen of Denmark, with the young Crown Prince Frederick and his brother Prince Knud received us in the drawing-room of the country house. I read the President's letter to His Majesty, to which he replied, as follows: It is with the greatest pleasure I have heard the words you have addressed to me in the name of the President of the United States of America, words in |