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

File No. 811.142/336g

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Gerard)

Department of State,
Washington, September 4, 1914.

[Telegram]

55. Department’s telegram to-day regarding Red Cross ship Hamburg. Request Foreign Office to instruct German Consul, New York, to give up Hamburg’s papers so that she may dear. He refuses to give up papers without authority. Report immediately.

Bryan