File No. 763.72114/2899
The Secretary of State to the Swiss Minister ( Sulzer)
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of September 18, 1917, in which you inform the Department of the contemplated inspection, by Dr. Carl P. Hubscher, Secretary of the Legation, and Mr. Maurice Trembley, of New York, a Swiss citizen, [Page 11] of the War Prison Barracks at Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. In reply I have the honor to inform you that the Department of State perceives no objection to the contemplated inspection but that it would be greatly obliged if, in future, the Legation of Switzerland would designate as inspectors only those men who are officially accredited to this country as representatives of the Swiss Government, in charge of German interests in the United States.
As regards the third paragraph of your letter of September 18, 1917, referred to above, I have the honor to inform you that the Department of State is this day in receipt of a communication from the Department of War stating that all the prisoners of war now confined at the War Prison Barracks, Fort Douglas, Georgia [Utah], are being transferred to the War Prison Barracks, Fort McPherson, Georgia, and that all interned aliens confined at the last-named War Prison Barracks are being transferred to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
I desire further to advise you that the Department of War has been informed of the proposed inspection of the representatives of the Swiss Government.
Accept [etc.]