Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72114A/251

The Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Berne, October 18, 1918, 11 a.m.
[Received 3.36 p.m.]

19. [From Garrett]:

Commission desires to insert the following article in proposed agreement: “Officer prisoners of war shall be paid in advance as soon as possible after capture for the remainder [of the current] month and thereafter on the first day of each calendar month.”

In view of the fact that such payments are to be reimbursed to the captor state, commission requests to be instructed as to whether its adoption would violate any existing statute. Garrett.

Stovall