Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/1174

The Ambassador in Russia (Marye) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
Petrograd, November 5, 1914.
[Received 11:45 p.m.]

[Telegram]

Russian Government officially notifies Embassy that it has placed mines in zone from 58° 50’ north latitude and to east of twenty-first meridian, also at entrance of Gulf of Riga and around Åland Islands and consequently entrance and exit of Finnish and Riga gulfs forbidden.

Marye