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

File No. 763.72/2939

The German, Ambassador (Bernstorff) to the Secretary of State

J. Nr. A 6435

Washington, October 12, 1916 .
[Received October 14.]

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I beg to inform you that my Government authorized me by wireless to communicate to your Government that activities of German submarines in the Atlantic will be entirely within the rules of international law and the promises given by the German Government by note of May 4, 1916.¹

I am [etc.]

J. Bernstorff

1. Ante, p. 257.