Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 800.115/1427

The Secretary of the Legation in the Netherlands (Langhorne) to the Secretary of State

American Legation,
The Hague, November 24, 1914.
[Received 5:15 p.m.]

[Telegram]

81. Your 52. Netherlands I Government, reserving the right to import and distribute flour, is willing to buy flour at 2.5 forms per hundred kilograms. Above contract price agreed upon at Rotterdam or Amsterdam before the war. These pods may not be consigned to Netherlands Government until the importers have sold them to the Government. Minister of Agriculture states that considerable quantities have already been obtained thus.

Langhorne