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

File No. 600.579/8

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

American Embassy,
London, November 24, 1914.
[Received December 7.]

No. 594]

Sir: I have the honor to inform the Department that I have received from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs copies of lists of articles, the exportation of which the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have prohibited under agreement with the British Government, and I beg to enclose herewith these copies in duplicate.¹ In this connection I further have the honor to inform the Department of the fact that these lists form an integral part of the program as to contraband which has been adopted, by His Majesty’s Government.

I have [etc.]

Walter Nines Page

1. Not printed; of considerable length. They resemble in general the Dutch list summarized ante, p. 388. See also the Ambassador’s telegrams Nos. 1202, December 6, and 1209, December 7, regarding the inclusion of copper in the Swedish list, ante, pp. 356, 359.