The Commercial Adviser of the British Embassy (Crawford) to the Acting Foreign Trade Adviser of the Department of State (Letcher)
Washington,
August 24, 1916
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Dear Mr. Letcher: We are advised that the British Government have informed your Embassy in London that tobacco shipments made before August 31 to the Netherlands need not be consigned to the Netherlands Oversea Trust, and if shipped to Scandinavia, need [Page 514] not be covered by the consignees’ guarantees, provided that the tobacco shipped before August 31 had not only been bought, but had been paid for before August 4.
Yours very truly,
R. Crawford