Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 825.731.

Ambassador Fletcher to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Embassy,
Santiago , January 12, 1915 .

Chilean Government has issued a decree forbidding all code messages to [omission] except diplomatic to neutral as well as belligerent which seriously interferes with our commerce. Am trying to have neutral countries excepted. Would like to know whether the United States Government has forbidden code messages to neutral countries.

Fletcher.