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

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

Department of state,
Washington, December 23, 1914.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: In reply to your note of the 21st instant, with reference to the British S. S. Mallina and Tremeadow, which you state have served as tenders to British cruisers, and are demanding coal in the Panama Canal Zone, I would advise you that these vessels have been considered by the Canal authorities as coming under rule 2 of the President’s proclamation of November 13 last in relation to the neutrality of the Panama Canal Zone,² which accords to transports or fleet auxiliaries the same treatment as that given to belligerent vessels of war.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing

2. Ante, p. 552.