CinC Lant File
A2/(0039}
 
               UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET
                  U.S. S. AUGUSTA, (Flagship)
 
                                   Newport, Rhode Island,
                                   May 17, 1941
 
From: To :     Commander-in-Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet. 
                     Chief of Naval Operations.
 
Subject:         Events in connection rescue survivors S.S. 
                     SALEIER (Dutch).
 
     l.   Forwarded for information and for consideration 
as to:
 
               (a) possible repercussions upon the arrival 
home of the German submarine involved and,
               (b) possible action by German submarines 
which encounter United States Naval vessels at 
sea in future.
 
      2.         I feel obliged to state that this incident was 
reported to me only this forenoon (at about 0830 E.S.T.). 
The subject report has since been made up and acted on and 
is going forward by air in the hands of Rear Admiral Bristol 
(Commander Support Force) this afternoon in order that know-
ledge of the incident may be known to the Chief of Naval 
Operations this same day. 
 
                              E.J. King