File No. 763.72111/1098
The British Ambassador (Spring Rice) to the Secretary of State
Washington, December 9, 1914.
[Received December 11.]
Dear Mr. Secretary: In my letter of the 2d instant I had the honour to forward to you the substance of a memorandum addressed to the Chilean Minister in London by His Majesty’s Government on the subject of the three new neutrality rules proposed by the Chilean Government for general adoption on the American continent.
[Page 696]I have now received a further telegram from Sir Edward Grey in which, referring to these proposals, he points out that it would be desirable to limit the amount of coal which merchant vessels are allowed to take to the capacity of their fixed bunker, exclusive of their reserve bunkers.
It is understood that the Argentine Government have already brought such a rule into effect by a decree published on the 14th October last.
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