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Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché at Rome, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters

C O P Y

File No:  25-9-16

Serial No.    112

Cablegram Received May 01205 <1918>   LEM

Origin, Alusna, Rome.

Ref’d to      date      Action, Notes and Intials.

OS 2          May 5         SX

CS1                    Cabled Rome May 6

N-3           May 7         R. C. H.2

O-4                          R.H.L.3

See cable 113 from Rome, R.C.H4

VERY SECRET

Simsadus:

112. Chief of Staff. Italian Navy5 submits verbal request through me for submarine chasers for escort and required Submarine Operations Tyrrhanean coast, to be operated by U.S. Navy personnel but gasoline supplied by Italian Government. He would appreciate any number possible. When Ford destroyers6 are available would appreciate two or more. 15004 112.

TRAIN        

Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 520, Box 387. Document reference: 1/5/6/C/D.”

Footnote 1: Sims’ Chief of Staff, Capt. Nathan C. Twining.

Footnote 2: Lt. (j.g.) Robert C. Hayden, Twining’s assistant, and a member of the Intelligence Section of Sims' staff.

Footnote 3: Capt. Richard H. Leigh, Commander, Submarine Chasers, Distant Service, and Operations Section, Anti-Submarine Division, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters.

Footnote 4: This cable has not been located.

Footnote 5: Chief of Naval Staff VAdm. Paolo Thaon di Revel.

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