Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 811.142/336g

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Gerard)

Department of State,
Washington, September 4, 1914.

[Telegram]

55. Department’s telegram to-day regarding Red Cross ship Hamburg . Request Foreign Office to instruct German Consul, New York, to give up Hamburg’s papers so that she may dear. He refuses to give up papers without authority. Report immediately.

Bryan