Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72114A/188

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall)

[Telegram]
Washington, September 27, 1918, 4 p.m.

3009. Your 4187, August 3. Your despatch No. 4070, August 6.1 War and Navy Departments have agreed to make payments to the [Page 45] categories of officer prisoners of war specified in the proposal of the German Government in accordance with the terms stated therein, pending a definite solution of this matter at the prisoners of war conference at Berne. The Department instructs you to request Spanish Embassy at Berlin to inform German Government to this effect. Advise Garrett.

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  1. Despatch not printed.↩