File No. 763.72111/736
The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador (Spring Rice)
Washington, November 25, 1914.
No 559]
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23d instant, in which, with reference to your note of November 22 last concerning the S. S. Sacramento , you advise the Department that His Majesty’s Government has reliable information that certain of the persons connected with the dealings of the Sacramento are now concerned in the Olson and Mahony, a vessel under the United States flag, which was due to sail from San Francisco on [Page 639] November 24 with Valparaiso as its ostensible destination, and that these facts make it more than probable that this vessel, like the Sacramento, is also engaged in supplying German cruisers. You accordingly request that the Olson and Mahony may not be allowed to sail without a most careful and searching investigation on the part of the Government of the United States.
In reply I have the honor to advise you that, on the 23d instant, this matter was brought to the attention of the Secretary of the Treasury, for his appropriate action.
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