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

File No. 763.72/1871

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

[Telegram]

Berlin, June 14, 1915.
[Received June 15, 4.30 p. m.]

2426. An extraordinary article in to-day’s Lokal-Anzeiger rebukes those who insist on relentless warfare and points out that America is in the right; that it is wrong to abuse America for supplying ammunition because Germany herself advocated the acceptance of the rule permitting this at The Hague. This article probably by Foreign Office.

Gerard