Office of the Historian

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)

Department of State,
Washington, October 28, 1914, 7 p.m.

[Telegram]

418. Your Nos. 893 and 894 of October 23, and your October 24, 7 p.m. Declaration of London. This Government cannot foretell effect of proposed order in council or new list of contraband upon public opinion in this country as to the rights of neutral trade, and therefore does not wish to be understood as waiving the right to protest against inclusion of any particular article in the list of contraband if the Government thinks that its neutral trade is being injured thereby.

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