File No. 763.72/9318
The Ambassador in France ( Sharp) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 29, 12.55 p.m.]
3470. Following joint telegram from Allied ministers dated Jassy, March 27:
The Swiss Legation, which was nevertheless charged, since the intervention of Roumania, with the protection of German, Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian interests, has not been authorized to send an official courier to its Government. This courier, stopped at Focşnĭ by order of Mackensen, was obliged to return to Jassy. The German Command in order to justify this arbitrary act explicitly invoked the necessity of completely isolating Roumania. If the Central Empires persist in this attitude they may make it absolutely impossible for us to correspond with our Governments, by taking possession of the wireless telegraphy, the only means of communication of which we still dispose. We ask our Governments to send us their instructions in anticipation of this contingency.