File No. 763.72119/637
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Memorandum
His Majesty’s Minister to Switzerland reports that there has lately arrived in that country a certain Suraya Bay Vlora who has been with the Prince of Wied at Vienna. This man, who was formerly an Albanian official, states that Talaat Pasha when he was recently in Berlin informed the German Government that in view of the present military and economic conditions Turkey could no longer go on with the war and would have to conclude a separate peace. He was begged to hold out until the end of July when the results of the German submarine campaign would have convinced Turkey that England’s power was broken and an honourable peace could be concluded by Germany.