File No. 763.72/4044
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page)
[Telegram]
Washington,
April 30, 1917, 6 p.m.
4772. Your 6077, April 24. Department has to-day informed the British Embassy that upon receipt of information that adequate protection has actually arrived in Liberian waters, an instruction will be sent to the American Minister in Monrovia to join with his British and French colleagues in advising the Liberian Government to break with Germany.
Lansing