DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

38 MARITIME DANGER ZONES.
File No. 841.801/35.
Consul General Skinner to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL,
London, Felruary 27, 1915.
Mariners warned navigation entirely forbidden to all
ships of area in Irish Channel bounded on northwest by
line joining latitude 55 degrees 22£ minutes, longitude
six degrees 17 minutes and latitude 55 degrees 31 minutes,
longitude six degrees 02 minutes bounded on southeast
by line joining latitude 55 degrees 10£ minutes
longitude 5 degrees 24J minutes and latitude 55 02
minutes longitude 5 degrees 40J minutes bounded southwest
by line from first described to fourth described
point bounded northeast by line from second described
to third described point. All traffic wishing to proceed
through North Channel must pass southward of Rathlin
Island between sunset and sunrise.
File No. 763.72/1604.
Ambassador Gerard to the Secretary of State.
SKINNER.
No. 615.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
Berlin, March 2, 1915.
SIR: With reference to my telegram No. 1719 * of the
1st instant, I have the honor to enclose to you herewith
a copy in translation of a Note Verbale received from the
Imperial Foreign Office, dated February 28, 1915, relative
to the extent of the war area proclaimed by the
German Admiralty. I have, etc.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
Nr. Ill a 4333
26052
[Inclosure—Translation.]
NOTE VERBALE.
JAMES W. GERARD.
With reference to its Note Verbale of the 4th instant,*
the Foreign Office has the honor to inform the Embassy
of the United States of America, in order to avoid any
doubts as to the northward extent of the war area defined
in the proclamation of the Chief of the Admiralty Staff
of the same day, that the waters surrounding the Orkneys
and the Shetlands belong to the war area, but that navigation
on both sides of the Faroe Isles is not endangered.
The Foreign Office begs the Embassy of the United
States of America to be good enough to inform its Government
of the above by cable and to notify the Governments
of Great Britain, Japan, and Servia accordingly.
BERLIN, February 28, 1915.
To the EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
1 Not printed. Gives substance of inclosure herewith.
' See EUROPEAN WAB NO. 1, pp. 52 and 53.