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

File No. 611.479/52

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

American Embassy,
London, November 17, 1914.
[Received 10 p.m.]

[Telegram]

1079. Your 507, November 10, and 513, November 11.¹

Sir Edward Grey informs me that all meat and wool and wool skins in the United Kingdom and colonies are required by British on account of war and that preembargo contracts cannot be filled because the necessities of the state must override all private contracts. This derangement of trade is one of necessary results of war and from such derangements British subjects of course suffer more and more of them suffer than neutrals.

American Ambassador

1. No. 507 not printed.