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

The Chargé in Sweden (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Stockholm, September 2, 1915, 2 p. m.
[Received 9.55 p. m.]

56. Department’s circular telegram of August 30. Sweden embargoed export arms and ammunition chiefly in order to conserve them for home use but also on account of attitude of British Government in retaliating on Swedish commerce in cases export from Sweden to Germany. Sale would have been purely negligible quantity.

Caffery