Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72111/2797a

The Minister in Denmark (Egan) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Copenhagen, September 1, 1915, 5 p. m.
[Received 8 p. m.]

170. Your circular August 30, 5 p. m. Arms and ammunition embargoed ostensibly for conservation but really to avoid belligerents’ enmity. Their exportation would have been a negligible factor.

American Minister