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

File No. 165.102/2

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Gerard)

Department of State,
Washington, August 20, 1914.

[Telegram]

Representative Metz anxious to learn possible stock of dyestuffs, cotton prints and pharmaceutical supplies and synthetic products available for United States. Also possibility of traffic on Rhine to Rotterdam. Manufacturing works mainly at Höchst, Biebrich, Ludwigshafen, Leverkusen, Ürdingen. Matter most important. Frankfort already instructed but no reply. Endeavor telegraph information earliest possible moment.

Bryan