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File No. 763.72112/2032

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

[Telegram]
Washington , March 2, 1916, 7 p. m.

2986. Your 3423, December 20.3 Ascertain whether British Government will permit passage of rubber medical supplies to Germany for units in Germany of American Physicians’ Expeditions Committee, under guarantee from this committee similar to that you state British Government will take from Red Cross. This committee has [Page 943] unit of 4 doctors and 3 nurses at Oppeln, Silesia, and unit 4 doctors and 6 nurses Deutsch-Eylau, West Prussia.

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  1. Not printed; see the British Ambassador’s note No. 435, December 15, 1915, Foreign Relations, 1915, Supplement, p. 1048.↩