Office of the Historian

File No. 300.115/12206

The Consul General at London ( Skinner) to the Secretary of State

London, April 11, 1917.
[Received April 26.]

Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith, in duplicate, a return of shipping detentions at Kirkwall during the month of March, 1917.1 The Department no doubt will be interested in observing the great falling off in the number of arrivals at Kirkwall during the last month which, undoubtedly, is due to the fact that Scandinavian shipping has remained, to a large extent, in home ports on account of the submarine peril.

I have [etc.]

Robert P. Skinner

  1. This report which is not printed indicates that the number of detentions during March was 14 as compared with the following detentions of preceding months:

    Jan., 1916 51 Aug., 1916 98
    Feb 51 Sept 110
    Mar 53 Oct 107
    Apr 72 Nov 87
    May 99 Dec 87
    June 93 Jan., 1917 57
    July 115 Feb 34

    A later report showed only one detention during the month of April (File No 300.115/12471).

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