File No. 763.72112/356
The Minister in Peru (McMillin) to the Secretary of State
Lima, November 10, 1914, noon.
[Received 5 p.m.]
[Telegram]
I have received from the Minister for Foreign Affairs for transmission to the Department a memorandum deploring the interruption of the commerce of peaceful nations by the nations at war; it expresses the belief of the Peruvian Government—
that the moment has arrived for the American Republics to take joint action to guarantee the inviolability of their trade routes by keeping them in all their extent free from the effects of hostilities between belligerent naval forces.
It has been communicated by Peru also to the Governments of the Argentine Republic, Brazil, and Chile. The text by the pouch.