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File No. 763.72/3422

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Netherlands ( Langhorne )1

[Circular telegram]
Washington , March 16, 1917, 2 p.m.

Your No. 758, March 10, 10 a.m., and Department’s March 13. Please ascertain officially and telegraph whether the Netherland [Page 554] Government intends to draw any distinction between the treatment in Dutch ports of American merchant vessels armed privately by the owners and American merchant vessels on which an armed guard has been placed for protection by the United States Government.

Lansing
  1. The same, on the same date, mutatis mutandis, to the diplomatic representatives in Spain, Norway, and Sweden.↩