File No. 341.622a/137
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)
3357. Your 4335, May 20, 2 p. m. I am pleased to learn that you have succeeded so well in obtaining the release of all of the persons seized from the China with the full admission of the principle for which the United States has always stood.
At an opportune time, but without such delay as would indicate lack of interest on my part, please press for the release of the men in the Henry S. and Ausable cases. The German Ambassador formally informs me that neither of the men taken from the Henry S. were members of the armed forces of Germany, Austria-Hungary or Turkey, but that they were simply civilians in the private American sea service, without any German connection whatever.