Office of the Historian

File No. 704.6368/2

The Consul at Saloniki (Kehl) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Saloniki, December 31, 1915.
[Received 11.40 p. m.]

Following bomb dropping yesterday by German-Austrian aeroplanes, British and French soldiers occupied German, Austrian, Bulgarian, and Ottoman Consulates. Consuls and staffs placed under arrest delivered aboard war vessel for transportation presumably to Volo or Piraeus.

Have taken over Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian interests as instructed, and at request of military authorities have provisionally taken charge of German-Ottoman interests pending Department’s instructions.

Kehl