Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/629

The Austro-Hungarian Ambassador (Dumba) to the Secretary of State

Austro-Hungarian Embassy,
Manchester, Massachusetts, August 26, 1914.
[Received 4 p.m.]

[Telegram]

I have just been informed by wireless by my Government that Emperor has ordered Commander of Austrian cruiser Elizabeth in Tsingtao to take up fight together with German Navy. Our diplomatic relations with Japan are broken off.

Dumba