File No. 165.102/144a
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Gerard)
Washington, October 7, 1914.
[Telegram]
345. American boat Matanzas leaves New York under ballast October 7, arrives Rotterdam October 20 or 21.1 Will leave Rotterdam for New York October 25 or 26. Will carry chemicals and dyestuffs. Are there objections to the export to this country of aniline salt, aniline oil, benzoic acid, hydrated carbonate potash, caustic potash, permanganate potash, prussiate potash, red and yellow, carbonate potash, carbon tetrachloride, saxonia white arsenic and red arsenic, antimony salt, barium salts, such as chloride, nitrate, carbonate, sulphide soda, bisulphate of soda, epsom salts, chloride of lime, magnesium chloride magnesium oxide, magnesium carbonate. Shippers and manufacturers guarantee that goods destined to United States are for home consumption in United States only and will be sold to consumers here on condition to be used here and not reexported.
- The dispatch of the Matanzas was the outcome of the conference mentioned in Department’s No. 265, September 26, ante, p. 411. The meeting, held on September 30, under the auspices of departmental officers and attended by a score of representatives of firms and associations interested in the importation of German chemical products, authorized a committee to obtain a ship for the purpose of bringing over such goods.↩