The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)
My Dear Mr. Page: I have received your letter of September 28, 1915, advising me of the unwillingness of the Foreign Office to investigate the stopped cablegrams and to furnish you with the reasons for such action.
While the Department fully understands the difficulties with which you have to contend in this matter, it seems advisable that further efforts to obtain the desired information should be made. To this end, therefore, I hand you, herewith, copies of two notes from the French Foreign Office,1 giving the reasons of the French Government why certain cablegrams were suppressed, and suggest [Page 727] that a member of the Embassy staff bring them to the attention of the head censor of commercial cablegrams in order that he may see exactly what the French authorities are doing.
I sincerely hope that the British censors will come to a realization of the unfortunate effect which their rigid attitude is having in this country, unless they will at least furnish the Department with as much information in the premises as the French censors are doing.
In the meantime the Department will continue to forward to you copies of all stopped cablegrams brought to its attention, which it is believed have been suppressed by the British censors.
I remain [etc.]
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