DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

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from October, 1914, to May, 1915, and again from June,
1916, to the last voyage from the United States before she
was sunk. She was not employed by His Majesty's
Government in any other way at any time.
Mr. Balfour begs leave to add that the vessel was at no
time "in the service of Has Majesty's Government" in
any sense in which she was not equally in the service of
any other regular shippers of the cargoes she carried.
The precise method of employment was explained to
Dr. Page in Viscount Grey's note of the 6th instant.
File No. 841.857M331/67.
The Secretary of State to Charge" Grew.
[Telegram—Paraphrase. |
No. 3692.] • DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, December 20, 1916.
Mr. Grew is informed that in further response to the
inquiries of the United States Government concerning
the status of the vessel Marina the British Minister for
Foreign Affairs states that the British Government were
in no way interested in the voyage of the Marina at the
time she was attacked. However, the Marina on her
return voyage would have brought a deck load of horses
for the British Government, but these would have made
but a small part of her cargo. On each voyage from the
United States to Great Britain from October, 1916, to the
last voyage from the United States before her sinking the
Marina was utilized for this purpose. The British Government
did not employ her at any time in any other manner.
In addition it is stated that the Marina was at no time in
the British Government's service in any sense in which
the vessel was not in the service of any other regular
shippers of cargoes carried by her.
An explanation of the precise method of employment
is contained in Viscount Grey's note of December sixth
to Ambassador Page, of which you were informed in
Department's telegram of December twelfth.
Mr. Grew is directed to bring the foregoing to the attention
of the German Government immediately.
File No. 857.857/39.
Case of the "Delto."
Consul General Hurst to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram—Extract. |
AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL,
Barcelona, November 7, 1916.
Norwegian steamer Delto bound from Naples to Barry
Dock, Wales, in ballast sunk October thirty-first, by
cannon shot from German submarine, about fifty-five
miles off Cape Palos, Spain. Steamer carried fireman
Frank Jenkins, an American negro of East Baton Rouge