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

File No. 763.72112/644

The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Stockholm, January 22, 1915, 3 p. m.
[Received January 23, 8.30 a. m.]

16. Department’s January 21, 6 p. m.¹ Foreign Office states comparisons in values set out by Great Britain unfair for reason prices greatly enhanced since outbreak of war; that only fair comparison is by weight or volume.

Foreign Office furnishes following approximate statistics of Swedish imports for November–December 1913, and same period 1914:

	[1913]		[1914]
Cotton	4,000	tons	9,000	tons
Grain and food products	108,000	tons	88,000	tons
Sulphur	7,000	tons	11,000	tons
Mineral oils	30,000	tons	32,000	tons
Copper	1,700,000	[kilograms]	3,000,000	kilograms

Complete statistics available about February 1.

Morris

1. Not printed.