Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 2, The World War

File No. 763.72114/3285

The Chargé in Switzerland ( Wilson) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Berne, February 9, 1918, 11 a.m.
[Received February 11, 5.20 a.m.]

2607. Department’s 1307, January 8.¹ Swiss Government replies will gladly undertake free transmission for present of letters, money orders, and packages under 5 kilograms directed to American prisoners of war and interned civilians in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey although United States not a signatory of Rome postal convention.² Should number of packages increase greatly, postage of 25 centimes per parcel may be asked as already required from France, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Wilson

1. See footnote 1, ante, p. 18.
2. Reference is apparently made to the Universal Postal Convention signed at Rome May 26, 1906; but the United States was a signatory of this convention (35 Stat. 1639).