File No. 763.72114A/219
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall )
[Telegram]
Washington
,
October 17, 1918, 4 p.m.
3137. For Dresel [from War Trade Board]:
No. 144. Replying Legation’s 5057, October 5, 3 p.m., your 205. Board sustains action of A[llied] B[lockade] C[ommittee] in Paris [Berne] of refusing shipments for Y.M.C.A. into Germany for the use of Russians who were once prisoners but are now held there in duress.
Lansing