Office of the Historian

File No. 300.115/6737

The Ambassador in France (Sharp) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Paris, January 21, 1916 .
[Received 9.45 p. m.]

1230. Your 1298, 5th. Foreign Office replies that it is not possible to grant a general authorization for the free exportation of hops as requested, adding that hops of a similar quality can, as a matter of fact, be found in Russia and in France and it does not appear that the brewery industry of the United States depends on hops of German and Austrian origin.

Sharp