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

File No. 768.72/114

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

American Embassy,
London, August 5, 1914.
[Received 12:40 a.m.]

[Telegram]

271. I have received at this moment, 1:40 a.m., August 5, a note from the Foreign Office dated August 4 informing me that a state of war exists between Great Britain and Germany.

American Ambassador