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

The Secretary of State ad interim to the Consuls at Liverpool and Christiania

[Telegram]

Washington, June 12, 1915.

Department of Commerce requests you be informed transfer steamer Lapland² to American flag cannot be recognized since vessel was not purchased by money furnished by American citizens.

Lansing

2. Bought by the American Transatlantic Company.