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

File No. 703.5263/3

The Ambassador in Spain ( Willard) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Madrid, April 11, 1917, 10 a.m.
[Received 6.30 p.m.]

469. Department’s 396, April 9, 4 p.m. Instructions have been given and Spanish Embassy, Vienna, has actually taken charge American interests Austria-Hungary. Similar instructions sent by Foreign Office in regard to British and Japanese interests.

Willard