Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1916, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72/2480

The Minister in Portugal (Birch) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Lisbon, March 9, 1916, 11 p. m.
[Received March 10, 8 a. m.]

34. German Minister, charged by his Government, declared to Minister Foreign Affairs late this afternoon that the German Government considers itself at war with Portugal. Minister leaving to-morrow. Spanish Legation in charge.

Birch