File No. 841.731/58
The Minister in Switzerland (Stovall) to the Secretary of State
American Legation,
Berne, November 5, 1914, 10 a.m.
[Received 8 a.m.]
Berne, November 5, 1914, 10 a.m.
[Received 8 a.m.]
[Telegram]
The director of the Swiss People’s Bank claims that all his recent telegrams to New York banks relating to money transfers have not [Page 514] reached their destination. He stated also that telegrams from Swiss banks to the United States ordering grain to be furnished Swiss Government had been stopped somewhere and never reached the United States. It is believed that England and France are censoring such telegrams. Swiss bankers protest as this interferes materially with the business between Switzerland and America.
Stovall