Naval History and Heritage Command

Secretary of State Robert Lansing to United States Embassy in London

          OPEN.

December 8, 1917.

INCOMING TELEGRAM.

To            American Embassy, London

From          Department of State, signed Lansing

Dated         December 7

Received      December 8, 1917, 9.30 a.m.

No.           Circular 7th.

          Congress today passed and President signed Joint Resolution declaring war on Austria-Hungary.

          Inform Consuls.

          Repeat to Bangkok, Tehran, Monrovia, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Athens, Christiana, The Hague, Petrograd, Jassy [Iasi], and to Paris who relays Berne, Rome, Madrid, Havre, Tangier and Lisbon.

(Repeated as instructed)

(Consul-General informed)