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Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Subject Copy.                      File No.

          Cablegram Sent 1 July 1918    RES1

To OPNAV Washington           Serial No. 430

Prep by A-1         SX   D.R.

29 ADR             

430. Your 7565.2 Our 97423 is reply to your 7319.4 Seaplanes drawing thirty inches of water can be handled but span should not exceed sixty feet. Request information action taken on proposal supplying machines to Portuguese. 22001 430.

Sims

Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B.

Footnote 1: Initials of the transcriber.

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