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

File No. 763.72/2635a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Gerard)

[Telegram]

Washington, May 5, 1916, 4 p. m.

2976. Please telegraph me what use, if any, you have made of Department’s circular April 27 regarding attitude of this Government on the subject of armed merchant ships,¹ and whether it was made known to the German Government before the dispatch of its note on submarine warfare which you are now sending.

Lansing

1. Not printed. This is a summary of the Department’s memorandum published on the same date. See ante, p. 244.