Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1916, Supplement, The World War

File No. 841.857P43/22

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

[Telegram]

Berlin, January 17, 1916, 10 p. m.
[Received January 18, 2 p. m.]

3360. Undersecretary Zimmermann informed me to-day that reports are now in from all German submarines and that sinking of Persia was not caused by a German submarine.

Gerard