File No. 763.72113/485
The Chargé in Denmark ( Grant-Smith) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Copenhagen,
March 16, 1918.
[Received 11.03 p.m.]
[Received 11.03 p.m.]
2051. For War Trade Board from Owen:1
Following from Deutscher Reichsanzeiger, Berlin, March 11, 1918:
Official order regarding liquidation of American enterprises of March 4, 1918, on ground of article 12, paragraph 2, of act relating to liquidation of British enterprises of 31st July 1916 (Reichs-Gesetzblatt, p. 871), following is enacted:
- Article 1. Regulations of act regarding liquidation of British enterprises of 31st July 1916 are declared in the way of reprisal as applicable to enterprises, whose capital belongs predominantly to citizens of United States of America, or which are managed or controlled from the territory of the United States of America, or which were until the outbreak of the war managed or controlled therefrom, as well as to the interests of citizens of the United States of America in such enterprises.
- Art. 2. This order goes into effect the day of announcement. Berlin, March 4, 1918, signed Freiherr von Stein, representing Imperial Chancellor.
For act of 31st July, 1916, see Kriegs-Notgesetze, Library, Department of State.
Am[erican] Legation
- William H. Owen, of the Bureau of Foreign Agents, War Trade Board.↩