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

The Secretary of State to the Electric Boat Company ¹

Washington, October 19, 1915.

Gentlemen: The Department has been informed that a number of submarines constructed by the Bethlehem Steel Company and the Electric Boat Company, and delivered to Vickers-Maxim, Montreal, have recently made the voyage to Great Britain.

The Department will be glad if you will be good enough to give it the facts regarding the reported construction and delivery of such submarines.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing

1. The same to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.