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

File No. 841.857P43/25

The Ambassador in Austria-Hungary ( Penfield ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Vienna , January 22, 1916 12 noon .
[Received January 23, 9 a. m.]

1103. Am in receipt of a note from the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated 21st instant, stating that since his communication of the 5th, all Austro-Hungarian submarines have returned from their cruise and it has been ascertained that none of them was concerned in the sinking of the Persia.

Penfield