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

File. No. 763.72111/1251

The Minister in Ecuador (Hartman) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
Quito, December 22, 1914, 10 a.m.
[Received December 23, 8 a.m.]

[Telegram]

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has given me a copy of a telegram from Commander Chambers who was commissioned to investigate charges of use of Galápagos Islands by Germans as a naval base. He says that during the time from the middle of September to December 2 German, English and Japanese ships were at the islands; that they bought cotton and provisions but did not take coal. Full information by mail.

Hartman