Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 1, The World War

File No. 763.72111Y2/17

The Ambassador in Spain ( Willard) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Madrid, February 17, 1917, 11 a.m.
[Received 6 p.m.]

355. Minister for Foreign Affairs reports that German Minister for Foreign Affairs told Spanish Ambassador, Berlin, that the American prisoners, S. S. Yarrowdale, and such other nonbelligerents will be liberated in a very short time.

Willard