Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72116/24

The German Ambassador (Bernstorff) to the Secretary of State

German Embassy,
Washington, September 3, 1914.
[Received September 4.]

[Translation]

I have the honor to communicate the following to your excellency:

My Government has informed me that a Belgian delegation has left for America to lay before the President of the United States documentary evidence of alleged German atrocities.

By direction of my Government I hereby protest against the contemplated representations which are groundless.

Accept [etc.]

J. Bernstorff