File No. 763.72/339
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
American Embassy,
London, August 11, 1914, 4 p.m.
[Received 11:25 p.m.]
London, August 11, 1914, 4 p.m.
[Received 11:25 p.m.]
[Telegram]
333. Your August 10, 1 p.m. The naval attaché is assured by Admiralty officials that Admiralty have not laid and will not lay mines in navigable waters except at entrance of ports they wish to defend. Sir Edward Grey tells me that Germany has been laying contact mines in the North Sea. The German mine-laying ship Königin Luise , recently destroyed by H. M. S. Amphion, was engaged in laying a line of contact mines to extend across the North Sea.
American Ambassador