File No. 763.72111G27/16
The Acting Secretary of State to the Japanese Ambassador (Chinda)
Washington, November 11, 1914.
My dear Mr. Ambassador: Referring to the Department’s informal note to you of October 30 regarding the internment of the German cruiser Geier at Honolulu, I would advise you that the four members of the Geier’s complement which sailed for San Francisco have been paroled not to leave that city and on condition that they do not perform any work which would call in question the good faith of the United States in the maintenance of its neutrality during the present war.
I am [etc.]