Office of the Historian

File No. 851.857Su8/16

The Ambassador in France (Sharp) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Paris, March 28, 1916, 10 p. m.
[Received March 29, 8.15 a. m.]

1330. Department’s 1438, March 27, repeated from London. Of ten American survivors making affidavit not one saw any signs of guns on Sussex. Foreign Office officially informs me that Sussex was not armed and that Channel passenger steamers are not armed and have not been. Major Logan and Lieutenant Smith, after careful examination of Sussex at Boulogne, report they could see no indications of any gun mountings.

Sharp