DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

222 SUBMARINE WABFARE.
File No. 300.115Ev2/39.
Ambassador Gerard to the Secretary of State.
No. 661.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
Berlin, April 12, 1915.
SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith enclosed a
translation of a Note received from the German Foreign
Office relative to the sinking of the American cotton
steamers Evelyn and Carib.
I have, etc.,
JAMES W. GERARD.
[Inclosure.]
NOTE VERBALE.
FOREIGN OFFICE,
Berlin, March 10, 1915.
With reference to its Note Verbale of the 3rd instant,
No. 11 U 901, the Foreign Office has the honor to inform
the American Embassy that from now available investigations
and reports in the matter of the American cotton
ships Evelyn, Carib, and Ocmulgee, it is established that
the loss of the two steamers Evelyn and Carib is to be
ascribed to the captains and to the inadequacy of the
pilots taken by them. The captains did not observe the
directions given them in the United States and the pilots
undertook a task to which they were in no way equal.
As the Admiralty has already directly informed the
Embassy Naval Attach^, the captains and crews have
complete freedom of action.
File No. 300.115G82/1.
Case of the "Greenbriar."
Consul General Listoe to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL,
Rotterdam, April 3, 1915.
Consul Fee, Bremen, wires steamer Greenbriar, Captain
Dalton, sailed April first Bremerhaven New York with
General cargo sunk April second apparently mine explo^
sion near North Frisian Island Amrum. All thirty-eight
members erew saved.
. LISTOE.
File No. 300.115G95/
Case of the "Gulflight." *
Consul Stephens to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN CONSULATE,
Plymouth, {Received) May 8, 1915.
American tank steamer Gulflight torpedoed off Scilly
first instant. Captain died heart failure, body landed.
Two of crew drowned, thirty-four saved. Vessel afloatj
patrol boats attempting tow her into Scilly.
STEPHENS.
i For additional correspondence concerning the "Quiflight" see "European War"
Nos. 1 and 2.