Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72111/998a

The Secretary of State to all Seaport Consuls

Department of State,
Washington, December 3, 1914.

Circular telegram]

Department’s circulars November 22, 25 and 28.² No reports need be made on vessels in following cases: vessels carrying cargoes manifestly of no use to war vessels, such as cotton, lumber, grain, fertilizers, etc.; vessels engaged in regular long-established trade between ports of United States and ports in your district; vessels arriving after entering at intermediate ports and being reported on by consuls there; vessels which you have no doubt left United States ports in ballast.

Bryan

2. Ante, p. 634, p. 639, and p. 641, respectively