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

File No. 367.116/170a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau)

Department of State,
Washington, August 28, 1914.

[Telegram]

The North Carolina now at Falmouth has been ordered to start to-morrow for Turkish waters with $150,000 gold relief fund.¹ Department has notified Straus, Schiff, and other interested parties to this effect who will probably send additional funds.

Bryan

1. The Tennessee was sent later under similar orders.