DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

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"Many applications for vessels to use the northabout
route have been received through the Legations of the
Scandinavian Powers in London and permission has been
granted.
"I have the honour to add that any similar applications
which may be made on behalf of United States vessels
would of course receive equal treatment."
PAGE.
File No. 841.801/46.
TJie Secretary of State ad interim to Ambassador
W. E. Page.
[Telegram—Paraphrase.]
No. 1721.] DEPARTMENT OP STATE,
Washington, June 16, 1915.
Mr. Lansing states that the inquiry in Department's
May 20th is not fully answered in the note of June 5th
from the British Foreign Office. The Department is at
a loss to understand the British Government's object in
regulating foreign vessel's courses on the high seas as
for example in paragraphs 10, 11, and 12 of the general
instructions of the fifteenth of May enclosed in despatch
of May 19 from Consul General appears to be the case.
Mr. Page is directed to press the British Foreign Office
for a further explanation.
File No. 841.801/47.
Consul General STcinner to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL,
London, June 23, 1915.
Hydrographic Department, Admiralty issue notice 525,
warning mariners danger passing through Pas de Calais
between Le Colbart (the ridge) and French coast. Vessels
from North must wait off Calais for pilot or instructions,
vessels from South must wait off Boulogne.
Vessels not conforming above do so at their own peril.
File No. 841.801/49.
SKINNER.
Ambassador W. H. Page to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
No. 2517.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
London, July 23, 1915.
Your 1721, June 16. Following note received from
Foreign Office, dated July 22:
"I did not fail to refer to the proper Department of his
majesty's government the note which your excellency
was so good as to address to me on the 18th ultimo regarding
the Admiralty announcement canceling the
notice on navigation in the North Sea on the 30th
November 1914.
" I have now the honour to inform your excellency that
the action of His Majesty's Government in indicating