Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/27

The Vice Consul at Kingston, Jamaica (Bundy), to the Secretary of State

American Consulate,
Kingston, July 30, 1914, 4 p.m.
[Received 7:35 p.m.]

[Telegram]

Jamaica forts manned, regiments hurried to Kingston to-day.1 German cruiser Dresden cruising off three-mile limit. Governor has suppressed all the reports pertaining to military operations. Official report not verified.

Bundy
  1. For further information regarding British military and naval preparations of this date, see the consular despatches from Georgetown (British Guiana), Cardiff, and Cork, which reached the Department on August 14, post, pp. 56, 57, 58.↩