File No. 656.119/187
The Minister in the Netherlands ( Garrett) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
The Hague,
December 11, 1917, 6 p.m.
[Received December 12, 12.35 a.m.]
[Received December 12, 12.35 a.m.]
1750. Your 836, December 10. Minister for Foreign Affairs tells me that in the belief that these questions were being discussed with War Trade Board’s representative now in London he instructed his representative there to agree to War Trade Board’s request with proviso that agreement should include grant of such part of tonnage in question as might be needed for Belgian Eelief under British-Dutch provisional agreement and for Dutch rationing.
Garrett