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

File No. 763.72112/124

The Ambassador in Austria-Hungary (Penfield) to the Secretary of State ¹

American Embassy,
Vienna, September 7, 1914.
[Received September 8, 10 a.m.]

[Telegram]

17. Your 21, September 2.² Austro-Hungarian Government desires British Government be notified that they will treat as absolute or conditional contraband those objects and material which are enumerated in Articles 22 and 24 of Declaration of London.

Penfield

1. Repeated to the Ambassador in Great Britain, September 10. The reply to the British inquiry received from the Ambassador in Germany, dated September 4 (File No. 763.72112/121), was a repetition of his telegram of August 10, ante, p. 216.
2. Not printed.