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

File No. 344d62/26

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

[Telegram]

London, January 4, 1915.
[Received 3.40 p. m.]

1395. Your 705, December 7.² British Government answers that although August Piepenbrink has declared intention of becoming American citizen he appears from a legal standpoint to be still a German subject if he has not actually taken out letters of naturalization and that in these circumstances it is not possible for him to be released.

American Ambassador

2. See preceding footnote.