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File No. 763.72112/3244

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

[Telegram]
London, December 21, 1916, 6 p. m.
[Received 4.40 p. m.]

5355. Your 4110,2 December 1, 7 p. m. and 4144,3 December 7, 6 p. m. In support of the original request contained in your 4048,2 November 16, 3 p. m., which was answered by Foreign Office in the sense of my 5272 [5271?],3 December 5, 5 p. m., renewed representations based on your above instructions were presented. Foreign Office replies in note received to-day that the concession made upon my request and contained in my note quoted in my 5076,4 October 26, was intended to operate in substitution for previous arrangements and that in these circumstances it regrets its inability to accede to the request based on your 4110, December 1, 7 p. m., and 4144, December 7, 6 p. m.5

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  1. Ante, p. 520.↩
  2. Ante, p. 521.↩
  3. Ante, p. 520.↩
  4. Ante, p. 521.↩
  5. Ante, p. 519.↩
  6. According to telegram No. 406, December 23, from the Minister in Denmark, arrangements were finally completed for the release of the detained tobacco in compliance with existing regulations. (File No. 763.72112/3248.)↩