Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1916, Supplement, The World War

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)²

[Telegram]

Washington, January 21, 1916, 4 p. m.

2760. American Red Cross desires to ship relief supplies for Serbia from United States to Holland, thence by land to Serbia. Ascertain attitude of British Government relative to such shipments, taking care to word your inquiries so as not to admit expressly or by implication any right of Great Britain to interfere with such shipments.

Lansing

2. The same, mutatis mutandis, to the Ambassador in France, No. 1331.