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

File No. 841.731/140

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

American Embassy,
London, December 17, 1914.
[Received 7:30 p.m.]

[Telegram]

Your 614, November 24, censorship of commercial cables.¹ British Government informs me that arrangements are being made to allow the use of Meyer’s Atlantic cotton code, 39th edition, in foreign telegrams and that a public announcement on the subject will be made as soon as the date of the admission of the code is settled. It is not at present practicable to allow the use of more than one cotton code and British Government are informed that the 39th edition of Meyer’s code is the one most generally used.

American Ambassador

1. Not printed.