Office of the Historian

File No. 811.142/2713

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

[Telegram]
London, November 26, 1917, 6 p.m.
[Received November 27, 6.10 a.m.]

7815. For Davison,1 American Red Cross [from Endicott2]:

1060. Blockade Department inform us practical embargo on all shipments Britain to Russia. British Red Cross confirm this, stating impossible ship opium which was to have left this week it being impossible to ship earlier. Have consequently canceled purchases and shall not draw.

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  1. Henry P. Davison, chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross.↩
  2. Lieut. Col. William Endicott, in charge of the American Red Cross Commission to Great Britain.↩