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

File No. 702.6211/206.

The Secretary of State to Attorney General Gregory.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 17, 1915.

Department is informed by German Embassy of the receipt of a telegram from the German Consul at Seattle dated March 17 as follows:

Yesterday afternoon six o’clock police entered Consulate in order to search offices. I hear that two people are imprisoned because they offered me information concerning sale of submarines.

Department would be pleased to have an investigation made in this case and a report of the results which may be used as a basis of a note to the German Embassy on the subject.

W. J. Bryan.