File No. 763.72/6855
The Ambassador in Argentina ( Stimson) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Buenos Aires,
September 16, 1917, 12 noon.
[Received 10.20 p.m.]
[Received 10.20 p.m.]
Your September 13, 5 p.m. Minister of Marine very kindly called at my house last evening and gave me complete list Argentine [Page 328] merchant marine with their whereabouts, 34 vessels in all not including river steamers. Only 4 exceed 1,000 tons. They are about half on voyage to Brazil, 15 to France. I asked him informally about placing vessels under Argentine flag, subject of course to law requiring one-third crew Argentine, and he said it was perfectly easy.
Stimson