File No. 300.115/904
The Minister in the Netherlands (Van Dyke) to the Secretary of State
The Hague, October 22, 1914.
[Received 8 p.m.]
[Telegram]
51. Answering your 44, 21st. Foreign Minister has just changed information given me October 16 and conveyed in my 47:
From to-day permits for consigning goods to Netherlands Government will not be granted through Consul General, New York, but directly by Government here to the Holland-America Line who will inform their agent at New York accordingly. Only goods whose reexportation is forbidden can be so consigned. Naturally the prohibition of export does not apply to goods In transit destined for belligerent country; such goods, however, cannot be consigned to Netherlands Government.