File No. 665.11251/17
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
London, December 8, 1914.
[Received 8:05 p.m.]
[Telegram]
1220. Your 687, December 5. The Swiss Minister here has no knowledge of any specific difficulty about shipment of American cotton through Italy to Switzerland but he informs me that the Italian Government has stopped at. Genoa American cargoes of some sort, whether cotton or not he does not know, bound for Switzerland, because they are consigned to shipper or to order, and that the Italian Government requires all goods in transit to be shipped to definite consignees. I have asked, also, British Foreign Office for information, which is promised if they have any after investigation. The probability is the trouble is with the Italian Government and its shipping regulations.