File No. 840.48/439
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
London, August 28, 1914.
[Received 7:15 p.m.]
[Telegram]
503. Your telegram received 15th instant. Foreign Office informs me that if the United States Government will guarantee that the German steamers Moltke and König Albert will be interned for the remainder of the war and that they carry no cargo from Italy, the [Page 485] British Government will take pleasure in complying with your request for consent to their use for conveying American citizens from Genoa to United States. The British Government, however, stipulate that in this case internment shall mean that these ships shall not be employed or utilized in any way and shall not be allowed to leave the port in which they shall have been interned.