811.111 Vessels/5103: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Hamburg (Erhardt)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Repeat following to Consul General at Berlin:
“Advise by mail supervisory consular officers in European countries and at London for information offices under their supervision as follows: Labor Department holds alien seamen traveling as passengers or transients for purpose transferring at American port to another vessel for service as members of crew are not admissible for this purpose. Therefore visas, crew list visas, or transit certificates should not be issued by American consuls, except as provided in Notes 84 and 85 section 361 Consular Regulations. Any alternate plan which may be suggested by a steamship company should be reported to the Department for instruction.”