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

File No. 763.72/292

The Swedish Minister (Ekengren) to the Secretary of State

Swedish Legation,
Bar Harbor, Maine, August 7, 1914.
[Received August 9.]

Sir: In conformity with telegraphic instructions received to-day from my Government I have the honor to inform your excellency that mines being planted at different points in the Swedish territorial waters, navigators are invited to conform with the regulations issued by the Swedish local authorities and not visit any Swedish port without employing pilot.

My telegram of this date is hereby confirmed.¹

With renewed assurances [etc.]

W. A. F. Ekengren

1. Not printed.