Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/1430

The Ambassador in Germany (Gerard) to the Secretary of Stale

[Telegram]
Berlin, February 2, 1915.
[Received February 4, 8 a. m.]

1504. Informed to-day by Undersecretary Zimmermann that as England was trying to starve Germany out, quite probably a submarine blockade of England would be declared soon and the channel closed.

Gerard