File No. 867.48/889

The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador on Special Mission ( Reading)

My Dear Lord Reading: Referring to your note No. 304 of March 21, 1918, and my communication of May 9, relating to the request of the Provisional Zionist Committee to send a medical unit to Palestine, I now beg to submit the following lists of doctors and nurses comprising the personnel of the Unit:

[Here follow the lists.]

It is my understanding that His Majesty’s Government will attend to the notification to the enemy concerning the Unit which, I am informed, is leaving the United States for Palestine immediately.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing