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

File No. 763.72/3593

The Swiss Minister (Ritter) to the Secretary of State

[Translation]

Department of German
Interests IV. 4

Washington, March 24, 1917.
[Received March 26.]

Mr. Secretary of State: In continuation of my note of yesterday I am asked and I have the honor to inform your excellency that, according to a telegram received this day from the Political Department, the German Government’s notice of the blockade of the Arctic Ocean is to be completed as follows:

The blockaded waters east of the 24th degree of longitude east and south of the 75th degree of latitude north.

Be pleased to accept [etc.]

P. Ritter