File No. 841/731/a
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)
Washington, August 23, 1914, 8 p.m.
[Telegram]
Department is informed that British censors will not pass the usual service correspondence provided for in international telegraph regulations whereby errors made in transmission are corrected without expense to the public, and require that all such corrections shall be made by private messages exchanged between addressees and senders and paid for. As this restriction apparently possesses no possible military features, but bears solely upon an administrative feature of international cable service and greatly increases cost to cabling public, make representations to British Government looking to removal of present embargo on repetition requests.