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

File No. 611.419/92

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

American Embassy,
London, December 14, 1914.
[Received 6:45 p.m.]

[Telegram]

1259. Sir Edward Grey informs me that the British Government will not issue further licenses for the supply of manganese to the Carnegie Steel Company, the Teneriffe Steel Company, and the United States Steel Products Company, as it seems evident that any shortage of this substance from which these companies may be suffering is due to their having sold their previous stocks to the German Government.

American Ambassador