File No. 763.72112/2342

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

[Telegram]

3627. Think it would make very good impression here if you could arrange that rubber operating gloves could be sent here through me. I will guarantee that gloves will be destroyed after use—see my despatch dated January 3, 1915. The keeping out of these gloves seems very inhuman to Germans and makes many justify inhuman reprisals.

Gerard