File No. 763.72111/5656
The Chargé in Paraguay, ( Sussdorff ) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Asuncíon
,
October 11, 1917, 2 p.m.
[Received 10.45 p.m.]
[Received 10.45 p.m.]
Referring to Department’s circular telegram of October 9, 3 p.m. Minister for Foreign Affairs informed me to-day that the Paraguayan Government imposes no restrictions on the entrance into Paraguayan ports of armed American merchant vessels engaged in commerce. The Minister added that his Government considers the arming of merchant vessels necessary in view of German submarine warfare.
Sussdorff