DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

264 SUBMARINE WARFARE.
Parish, Louisiana, whose uncle is William Clement, Seymourville,
Louisiana. Jenkins brought Barcelona by
Norwegian Consular officials and has made affidavit of
sinking.
File No. 857.857/58.
Ambassador Gerard to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
HURST.
No. 4791.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
Berlin, December 27, 1916.
The following note relative to the sinking of the Norwegian
ship Delto has just been received:
"FOREIGN OFFICE,
"Berlin, December 25, 1916.
"The undersigned has the .honor to inform His
Excellency, Mr. Gerard, Ambassador of the United
States of America, in reply to the note of Mr. J. C. Grew,
dated the twenty-first ultimo, Foreign Office number
fourteen forty-two, relative to the sinking of the Norwegian
ship Delto by a German submarine as follows:
"According to the investigations of the German Naval
authorities the Norwegian ship Delto not Delta, which was
chartered by the Italian Government to carry coal, was
stopped on October thirteenth last about forty nautical
miles southeast of Cape Palos and sunk by artillery fire
on account of unneutral service to the enemy (?), also
Article forty-six, paragraph one, number three of the
Declaration of London, after the German commander had
taken the ship's papers on board and caused the crew to
enter the lifeboats. The crew was given half an hour to
leave the ship; the weather was good and very clear,
the wind was very light. The boats had a comparatively
short way to go to reach the Spanish coast, so that
there was full security for saving the crew.
"The presumption expressed by the American Government
that the lives of American citizens on board the
Delto were jeopardized is therefore not correct.
"The undersigned requests that the above (be?) communicated
to the American Government and avails himself
of the (* * *y to renew to the Ambassador the assurance
of his most distinguished consideration.
File No. 841.857/190.
"(Signed) ZIMMERMANN."
Case of the "Arabia."
GERARD.
Ambassador W. H. Page to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram—Paraphrase.]
No. 5129.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
London, November 7, 1916.
Mr. Page reports that he is in receipt of information
that the steamship Arabia of the P. and O. line was torpedoed
in the Mediterranean on November 6 with 483 passengers,
of whom 160 were women and children. Details
are lacking.
1 Apparent omission.