File No. 867.00/722
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau)
Washington, December 1, 1914, 10 p.m.
[Telegram]
90. Your despatch 120, October 5.1 Department forwarded to the Navy Department copy of circular note verbale from the Sublime Porte and has received a reply from the Navy Department suggesting in view of the limitations placed upon the cruising ground of naval vessels in Turkish waters by the terms of this note, that the American Ambassador be asked his opinion as to whether under the [Page 775] circumstances one of the two United States warships now in Ottoman waters might be returned to the United States. Each vessel was sent to Europe hurriedly, and is in need of docking and repair.
Please report to Department.
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