File No. 763.72111G27/3
The Acting Secretary of State to the Japanese Ambassador ( Chinda )
Washington , October 30, 1914.
My dear Mr. Ambassador: In reply to your note of the 28th instant in regard to the German gunboat Geier, now undergoing repairs at Honolulu, I would advise you that the Imperial German Ambassador in this capital has been informed of this Government’s intention to fix a definite period within which repairs to this vessel should be completed, and that if it is found impossible to complete the repairs within the period set, the United States will be obliged to insist that the gunboat be interned during the present war. Instructions have been issued to the United States officers to inform the captain of the Geier in this same sense.
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