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

File No. 763.72/580

The Ambassador in Italy (Page) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
Rome, August 23, 1914, noon.
[Received 2 p.m.]

[Telegram]

Please send following to office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, from Naval Attaché:

Italy steadily preparing with expectation of good excuse arising in Balkans to declare war on [Austria?]. Italian fleet concentrated Taranto. Abruzzi appointed Commander in Chief. Austrian naval vessel Zenta sunk. Reported French-English fleet basing near Corfu.

American Embassy