File No. 165.102/67
The Ambassador in Germany ( Gerard ) to the Secretary of State
Berlin , September 25, 1914, 10 p.m.
[Received September 26, 9:45 p.m.]
[Telegram]
316. The following received from the Foreign Office in writing this evening:
We are ready to allow the transportation to the United States of chemicals, dyestuffs, cyanide of potassium, and medicines on Dutch vessels via Holland if the American Government guarantees that it will allow the distribution of the goods in the United States and Mexico alone, to control the arrival of each single shipment in the United States and to notify us thereof through the Berlin Embassy; and, if any shipments destined for America are seized by our enemies, to protest against such action, as being contrary to international law, with all the means at its command. The same applies to transportation by American ships and by Italian vessels via Genoa.