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

File No. 840.48/374

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)²

Department of State,
Washington, August 25, 1914.

[Telegram]

Your undated telegram received August 22. In view of present transportation facilities the Department will not consider at present the chartering of German ships for the return of stranded Americans to the United States.

Bryan

2. The same in purport to the other ambassadors in belligerent countries.