File No. 300.115/8363
The Consul General at London (Skinner) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 13.]
Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith in duplicate list of goods consigned by various American firms to importers in Holland in care of the Netherlands Oversea Trust, and now returned for prize court proceedings.1
The attention of the Department is called very particularly to the fact that the British authorities appear to have decided to ignore the pledge expressed in a note dated April 27, 1915,2 to the Ambassador, stating that “while His Majesty’s Government do not require cargoes to be consigned to the Netherlands Oversea Trust, they do accept consignment in that form as proof that the cargo is intended for bona fide consumption in Holland.”
I have [etc.]
- Not printed.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1915, Supplement, p. 378.↩