File No. 341.622a/170
The German Ambassador (Bernstorff) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 30.]
Mr. Secretary of State: In reply to your excellency’s kind note No. 1965 of the 15th instant,1 I have the honor respectfully to inform you that Paul Otto Waldemar Leiztritz reported at the Imperial Consulate General at New York in October last. The papers produced by him show that he is a quartermaster of the reserve of the Second Naval Division, but has not yet been during the present war “an individual embodied in the armed forces of the enemy” (Article 47 of the preliminary provisions of the Declaration of the Naval Conference of London). As appears from your excellency’s note of October 3, 1914 concerning the transit of reservists from Canada through the United States, the Government of the United States also is of the opinion that such persons are not to be regarded as enlisted men of the land or sea forces.
Under the circumstances I should be thankful if early steps toward the release of Leiztritz could be taken.
Accept [etc.]
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