The Department of State to the German Embassy

Memorandum

The Department of State has received the Imperial German Embassy’s memorandum of December 21, 1915, No. A 8351, enclosing a wireless cipher message to the Foreign Office in Berlin, with duplicate copies of the text thereof, for transmission to the Tuckerton radio station.

In reply the Embassy is advised that the message in question has been sent as requested.

The Department has to-day instructed the American Ambassador at Berlin by cable to transmit by telegraph through the Department any message concerning the Lusitania matter which the Imperial Foreign Office may desire to send to Ambassador Bernstorff.