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

File No. 341.115P51/46

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

[Telegram]

London, April 27, 1915.
[Received 7.55 p. m.]

1998. My 1995 [1955] of 19th.¹ Foreign Office informs me that British Government never had any intention of seizing the Joseph W. Fordney , but that, as the result inquiries, they have decided to detain her cargo under order in council of March 11, on ground that the ostensible consignee does not exist at the port to which the bills of lading were made out.

American Ambassador

1. Ante, p. 372.