Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 711.0021/94a

The Secretary of State to the American Legation at Brussels ²

[Circular telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, April 1, 1916.

Endeavor obtain early reply to representations made in accordance with Department’s instruction May 29, 1915, regarding Seamen’s Act, approved March 4, 1915.

Lansing

2. Sent also to the Embassies at Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, and Madrid, and the Legations at Peking, Copenhagen, Athens, The Hague, Christiania, and Bucharest.