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

File No. 763.72112/304

The Ambassador in Germany (Gerard) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
Berlin, November 4, 1914.
[Received November 5, 5 p.m.]

[Telegram]

724. Your 504, 27th.¹ German code of. prize procedure of April 15, 1911, published Reichs-Gesetzblatt, 1914, No 51, provides in section 1, paragraph 2, No 2, for prize adjudication of all vessels and cargoes destroyed, the prize court at Hamburg being competent. Prize proceedings on all vessels until now reported as sunk and their cargoes will be held shortly.

Gerard

1. Ante, p. 330.