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

The Secretary of State to the Vice Consult Kingston Jamaica (Bundy)

Department of State,
Washington, October 7, 1914.

[Telegram]

Reference Section 2174, Revised Statutes. American vessels are under no duty to refuse to ship belligerent seamen or to transport citizens or subjects of belligerent countries. It is not understood that right to arrest and remove such seamen or passengers on high seas was asserted by British authorities.

Bryan