Office of the Historian

File No. 300.115/7284

The Consul General at London (Skinner) to the Secretary of State

[Extract]
London, February 7, 1916 .
[Received February 23.]

The number of vessels loaded at American ports and detained by the British Admiralty at the port of Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, since the coming into effect of the order in council of March 11, 1915, has been month by month as follows:

March 1915 73
April 114
May 57
June 53
July 39
August 37
September 39
October 54
November 69
December 47
January 51

The detentions in detail during the month of January 1916, were as follows: . . .

R. P. Skinner