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

File No. 763.72111/1404a

The Secretary of State to all Seaport Consuls

Department of State,
Washington, January 11, 1915.

[Circular telegram]

You need not report further in response to circular instructions of November 22⁶ and following relative to unneutral service, except in suspicious cases. You will not, however, relax your vigilance to obtain and report information regarding violations of American neutrality and transshipment of cargoes at sea to belligerent warships.

Bryan

6. Ante, p.634