Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, The World War

File No. 124.0665/7

The Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Constantinople, January 17, 1915, 3 p. m.
[Received January 18, 8.30 a. m.]

306. Your 71, November 25,² and your 262 of the 13th instant.¹ Note received from Foreign Office stating that, owing to the extreme gravity of the present situation, decisions now in force (enclosure No. 2, despatch 137, November 28¹) regarding restrictions of sealed official correspondence cannot be changed. By these decisions military commanders of districts where military movement is taking place are empowered to stop all sealed official correspondence between consulates and embassy, etc. Will file protest.

American Ambassador

2. Foreign Relations, 1914, Supplement, p. 542.
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