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

File No. 822.242/4

The Secretary of State to Minister Curtis

[Telegram—Extract]

Department of State,
Washington, February 7, 1916, 4 p.m.

Your February 4, 5 p.m. Will endeavor to arrange shipment on Collier Sterling carrying supplies to Chester. Necessary that Chester be stationed elsewhere at earliest possible date. Upon receipt of arms and ammunition, and with Roundtree and Gillespie on duty, could not Chester depart without serious inconvenience?

Lansing