Office of the Historian

File No. 840.48/126

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

American Embassy,
Vienna, August 9, 1914.
[Received August 10, 7:30 a.m.]

[Telegram]

Austro-Hungarian Government agrees to exemption from military law such vessels as may be chartered by Americans for transportation citizens to the United States on condition that vessels are used exclusively for purpose named and that other belligerent states agree to proposal. They ask to be kept fully informed.

Penfield