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

File No. 841.731/55

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
London, October 30, 1914.
[Received 8 p.m.]

[Telegram]

945. Your telegram 405, 27th. Foreign Office informs me that private individuals telegraphing to this country are allowed to use registered cable addresses and that signatures may be abbreviated but must indicate the source unmistakably.¹

American Ambassador

1. Following the receipt of this telegram, the Department resumed the use of its own abbreviated forms of addresses and signatures.