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Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to Various Naval District Commandants and Naval Overseas Transport Service District Supervisors

___CONFIDENTIAL___

<Radiogram,>         August 29th,1918.

COMMANDANT FIRST NAVAL DISTRICT1

DENOTS BOSTON2

COMMANDANT SECOND NAVAL DISTRICT3

COMMANDANT THIRD NAVAL DISTRICT4

DENOTS NEW YORK5

COMMANDANT FOURTH NAVAL DISTRICT6

DENOTS PHILADELPHIA7

COMMANDANT FIFTH NAVAL DISTRICT8

DENOTS FIFTH NAVAL DISTRICT9

TRANSLATION

B- CODE   Instruct Commanding Officers of Naval Overseas Transportation Service vessels making English Ports at which no U.S.Naval Port Officer is stationed to report arrivals and departures to Commander U.S.Naval Forces Operating in European Waters London regardless of whether vessel is acting under orders of British Admiralty or not Acknowledge  COMDTS FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH NAVAL DISTRICTS DNOTS BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA FIFTH NAVAL DISTRICTS. 14029.

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Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B. Document identifiers: in the upper right-hand corner: “OP-18-M” and in the upper left-hand corner: “OE-6953.”

Footnote 1: RAdm. Spencer D. Wood.

Footnote 2: Capt. Yancey S. Williams, District Supervisor, Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS). For a list of the district supervisors of NOTS, see, Clephane, Naval Overseas Transportation Service: 13.

Footnote 3: Commo. James P. Parker.

Footnote 4: RAdm. Nathaniel R. Usher.

Footnote 5: Cmdr. Charles Boone.

Footnote 6: Capt. George F. Cooper.

Footnote 7: Cmdr. Francis W. Hoffman.

Footnote 8: RAdm. Augustus F. Fechteler.

Footnote 9: Lt. Comdr. H. L. Chick.