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

File No. 300.115

The Secretary of State to all Seaport Consuls

Department of State,
Washington, August 17, 1914.

[Telegram]

Telegraph promptly capture of merchant vessels coming to your knowledge. When you have information of claim of American owner of cargo, give informal notice thereof; and when requested by American owner of cargo, select representative for him without liability of yourself or this Government.

Bryan