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

File No. 862.85/150

The Minister in Uruguay ( Jeffery) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Montevideo, September 14, 1917, 12 noon.
[Received 6 p.m.]

Police authorities of port of Montevideo to-day have placed all German ships under police control. Rumors of possible injury to ships is the reason assigned for this action. Germans have been taken off ships.

Jeffery