File No. 763.72/2481
The Ambassador in Germany (Gerard) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 10, 4.26 p. m.]
3601. Papers report House took same action as Senate on resolution to warn Americans by vote of 258 to 160. Cologne Gazette complains of negligence of this Embassy in not telegraphing contents of secret orders contained in enclosures to German memorandum to Washington, thus giving British Government chance to get in first with misleading statements. As result the debates in Congress do not seem to have touched the question of aggressive armament of English merchantmen, which is the main point of the German argument.