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

File No. 763.72/26

The Chargé d’Affaires in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
Peking, July 31, 1914, 1 a.m.
[Received July 30, 4:15 p.m.]

[Telegram]

I am credibly informed the British gunboats of Hankow and supposedly smaller naval vessels elsewhere in China have been dismantled and their crews sent to Weihaiwei where the more powerful vessels are being concentrated with a view to possible hostile action by Germany.

MacMurray