File No. 763.72/3584
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Netherlands ( Langhorne)
[Telegram]
Washington,
March 31, 1917, 7 p.m.
462. Your 798, March 23, 4 p.m. It is assumed by this Government that the position of the Dutch Government has no reference to the armed vessels of neutral countries which may enter Dutch ports as ships of commerce. This Government would be pleased to have this view confirmed by the Government of the Netherlands.
Lansing