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

File No. 768.72/574

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

American Embassy,
Berlin, August 22, 1914, 12 midnight.
[Received August 23, 5:26 p.m.]

[Telegram]

Austrian Embassy requests that following message be telegraphec:

Berlin, August 22, 1914. To the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in Tokyo. H. M. S. Empress Elizabeth, harboring at Tsingtao, should disarm, crew to proceed to Tientsin.

Berchtold
Gerard