File No. 371.11/207
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Switzerland ( Wilson )
[Telegram]
Washington
,
October 31, 1917, 6 p.m.
1076. For Berlin:
It has been reported to this Government that the German Government intends shortly to auction American oil properties in Roumania. Please use your utmost endeavors to ascertain immediately if this report is correct, and reply by telegraph.
Lansing