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File No. 861.48/119

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany ( Gerard )1

[Telegram]
Washington , May 24, 1916, 6 p. m.

3028. American Ambassador, London, informs Department he sent you, May 17, copy of memorandum received from British Government containing terms and conditions under which Entente powers would agree to shipment relief supplies into Poland. Furnish [Page 895] German Government promptly copy this memorandum and ascertain attitude German Government. Report by cable to Department.

Polk
  1. The same, mutatis mutantis, to the Ambassador in Austria-Hungary, No. 1238.↩