Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/86

The German Chargé d’Affaires (Haniel) to the Secretary of State

German Embassy,
Newport, Rhode Island, August 3, 1914.
[Received August 4, 9 a.m.]

[Telegram]

I am instructed by my Government to inform you that France since first of August has attacked several times German territory. Germany is therefore now in state of war with France.

Haniel