DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

MARITIME DANGER ZONES. 49
of these measures, but to present demands and claims
in relation to any American interests which may be unlawfully
affected, directly or indirectly, by virtue of the
enforcement of these measures.
Accept, etc.,
ROBERT LANSING.
File No. 841.801/88:
Ambassador W. E. Page to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN EMBASSY,
London, March 23,1917.
My telegram 5701, February fifteenth.
Foreign office in note dated March twenty-first state:
"As from the first April, 1917, the dangerous area will
comprise all the waters except Danish and Netherlands
territorial waters lying to the southward and eastward of
a line commencing three miles from the coast of Jutland
on the parallel of latitude fifty-six degrees north and
passing through the following positions:
"One. Latitude fifty-six degrees north, longitude six
degrees east.
"Two. Latitude fifty-four degrees forty-five minutes
north, longitude four degrees thirty minutes east.
"Three. Latitude fifty-three degrees twenty-three minutes
north, longitude five degrees one minute east.
"Four. Latitude fifty-three degrees twenty-five minutes
north, longitude five degrees five and half minutes
east, and thence to the eastward following the limit of
Netherlands territorial waters."
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File No. 841.801/95.
Consul General STcinner to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL,
London, April 27, 1917.
Admiralty Notice 434, dated April twenty-sixth, cancels
number 319, entitled caution with regard to dangerous
area. New notice repeats former preamble and states
that on and after May 3, 1917, will be further extended
as undermentioned.
"Dangerous area: The area comprising all the waters
except Netherlands and Danish territorial waters lying
to the southward and eastward of a line commencing
three miles from the coast of Jutland on the parallel of
latitude 56 degrees 00 minutes north, and passing through
the following positions: First. Latitude 56 degrees 00
minutes north, longitude 6 degrees 00 minutes east. Second.
Latitude 54 degrees 45 minutes north, longitude 4
degrees 30 minutes east. Third. Latitude 53 degrees 15
minutes north, longitude 4 degrees 30 minutes east.
Fourth. Latitude 53 degrees 23 minutes north, longitude
4 degrees 50 minutes east. Fifth. Latitude 53 degrees 23
minutes north, longitude 5 degrees 01 minute east. Sixth.
Latitude 53 degrees 25 minutes north, longitude 5 degrees
05J minutes east, and from thence to the eastward, following
the limit of Netherlands territorial waters."
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