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Office of the Chief of Naval Operations All Navy War Warning

U. S. NAVAL RADIO SERVICE

RECEIVED OR FILED                           

AT STATION  SAN DOMINGO     BY RADIO         DATE Aug 29,[19]18 Time 10:22 PM

ORIGIN                       Operator Recd,

[Opnav] WASHINGTON                   FR

VIA <To: San Domingo, Radio Station>

GOVT. WAR WARNING:

Enemy submarine may be encountered between latitudes of Cape Race and Charleston, S.C. active east of Nantucket and south of Nova Scotia, south of New Foundland also.1

Ends.              

Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B. The sender is based on the fact that two earlier messages that were nearly identical originated from the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (Opnav). See: Office of the Chief of Naval Operations All Navy War Warning, August 6 and August 13, 1918. There is a distribution list below close: “Copy TO BRIGADE, KWASIND, INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.”

Footnote 1: The submarines U-140, U-156 and U-117 had been active in American waters during August though by this time all three had begun their journeys homeward. Clark, When U-Boats Came to America: 230-31, 241, 247.

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