Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72111/1239

The German Ambassador ( Bernstorff ) to the Counselor for the Department of State

German Embassy,
Washington , December 21, 1914. [Received December 22.]

J. NO. A 3180]

My dear Mr. LANSING: I learn that the British S. S. Mallina and Tremeadow , which served as tenders to British cruisers, now demand to be allowed to coal in Panama and to leave for Australia, alleging that they have ceased to be tenders of British warships. I beg to draw your attention to the fact that, as far as can be seen from here, their case, in the principal points, is identical with the case of the German S. S. Locksun .¹

I am [etc.]

J. Bernstorff

1. See the section on treatment of belligerent warships, their crews and tenders, in American ports— Internment of the Geier and Locksun—ante, 583.