Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 1, The World War

File No. 841.857/313

The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

London, February 5, 1917.
[Received 9.15 p.m.]

5607. I am informed by the Official Press Bureau that British ship Eavestone, en route Newport News to Liverpool, was to-day shelled by German submarine; men took to boats and submarine continued shelling; captain and three seamen killed while in small boats, one of latter being American citizen, Richard Wallace of Baltimore.

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