Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 312.11/4048.

The Secretary of State to the German Ambassador.⁹⁰

No. 996.]

Department of State,
Washington May 6, 1914.

Excellency: The Secretary of the Navy has made known to me information which he has received from the Commander-in-Chief of our Atlantic Fleet of the assistance rendered by German naval vessels in removing American refugees from Tampico to American men of war off the mouth of the river.

It has given me pleasure to instruct the American Ambassador at Berlin to express to your Government the cordial thanks of the Government of the United States for this friendly service.

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Robert Lansing

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90. Mutatis mutandis to the French and British Embassies.