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

File No. 811.741/58

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page )

Department of State,
Washington , August 7, 1914.

[Telegram]

Your 265. The President issued an Executive order on August 5 prohibiting all radio stations within the jurisdiction of the United States from transmitting or receiving for delivery messages in cipher or of an unneutral nature, and from in any way rendering to any one of the belligerents any unneutral service, during the continuance of hostilities. The Secretary of the Navy is strictly enforcing this order.

Bryan