Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1916, Supplement, The World War

File No. 841.711/349

The British Ambassador (Spring Rice) to the Secretary of State

No. 85

Washington, April 3, 1916 .

Sir: I have the honour, by direction of Sir Edward Grey, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to transmit to you herewith a memorandum stating the contentions of His Majesty’s Government and the French Government in regard to their right to detain and examine parcels and letter mails on neutral vessels.¹

I have [etc.]

Cecil Spring Rice

1. Not printed; identical with the memorandum of February 15, 1916, enclosed in the French Ambassador’s note of April 3. See ante, p. 599.