HURRAH! "WAR ON ALL NEUTRALS AT LAST"
Reading edition
Neutral ships which navigate the barred zones will do so at their own risk. Even though provision be made that neutral ships which on February 1st are en route to ports in the barred zones will be spared during an appropriate period, it is nevertheless urgently advisable that they be directed by all means available into other routes. Neutral ships which are lying in harbors in the barred zones can with equal security still leave the barred zones if they depart before February 5 and take the shortest route to a free zone.
German Note Presented to the United States Ambassador, Mr. Gerard, Amsterdam, January 31, 1917.
