File No. 611.479/96
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)
Washington, December 1914.
[Telegram]
806. Owners ship Aryan, now at Sydney, desire consent to load merino wool for Boston. Ship sailed for Sydney before embargo and wool was purchased for American mills expecting shipments by her. Both ship and wool owned by American citizens. Wool valued over million dollars. Interested parties claim they will suffer great damage as mill will probably be obliged to close. Are willing to give reasonable guarantees that wool will be manufactured in America and against its reexportation. Use your good offices to communicate this request to Foreign Office. It has been brought to Department’s attention in several instances that American importers purchased and paid for wool in British colonies before outbreak of war and are greatly inconvenienced and will suffer losses unless wool can come forward.