Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/3860

The Ambassador in Argentina ( Stimson) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Buenos Aires, April 15, 1917, 11 a.m.
[Received 4 p.m.]

Brigantine Monte Protegido, under Argentine flag, sunk off Scilly Islands by German submarine; will probably not cause intervention. Captain and crew all Norwegian but severance of diplomatic relations with Germany likely at any moment.

Stimson