File No. 811.731/208
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page)
[Telegram]
Washington,
August 15, 1917, 3 p.m.
5301. Your 6938, August 13, 1 p.m.1 Beginning midnight July 25–26, naval cable censorship began to censor all cablegrams passing over Atlantic cables to, from, or in transit through, the United States. Notwithstanding this added censorship, the Department would not deem it wise for the British authorities to relax in any way their censorship.
Lansing
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