File No. 763.72112/2404
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Gerard)
2956. Department received despatch from Page, London, stating that British Foreign Office announces that as they have received no definite indication of the views of German, Austrian, or Turkish Government on the subject of lists of articles which last summer British Government stated they would be prepared to accept as coming within description contained in Article 29 (I) of Declaration of London and therefore exempt from treatment as contraband of war on the ground that they serve exclusively to aid sick and [Page 947] wounded, they have decided to withdraw these lists. Your despatch 1673, October 19.1 Is Department to understand that German Government has never transmitted any definite reply on this matter to British Government?