Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 2, The World War

File No. 863.852/12

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Austria-Hungary ( Penfield)

[Telegram]

Washington, March 23, 1917, 5 p.m.

1617. Your March 20, 4 p.m. Inform steamship company that, Department’s regulations being now more strictly adhered to than in 1915,¹ message will not be forwarded.

Lansing

1. See Foreign Relations, 1915, Supplement, p. 711.