Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/212

The Chargé d’Affaires in Russia (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg, August 7, 1914, 9 a.m.
[Received 11 a.m.]

[Telegram]

Urgent. Austrian Ambassador and staff have left. In view of destruction German Embassy and fearing same Austrian Embassy, am I authorized to raise thereon American flag if I judge it necessary to save Embassy premises and lives of occupants?

Wilson