File No. 841.857Ea3
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Gerard)
[Telegram]
Washington,
April 1, 1916, 4 p. m.
2874. The Department is informed that on March 28 the British steamer Eagle Point with Americans on board was torpedoed after surrender while bound from St. Johns, New Brunswick, to Cherbourg, and that the persons on board were left in two small boats in a heavy sea with a stormy wind blowing, 130 miles south of Queenstown. Please make immediate inquiry of the German Government as to whether this vessel was torpedoed by a submarine belonging to Germany or its allies. A prompt reply is expected.
Lansing