Office of the Historian

740.00115A PW/8–745

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

No. 12257
Bern, August 7, 1945.
[Received August 18.]

The American Minister at Bern has the honor to refer to the Legation’s airmail despatch No. 9693 of October 31, 1944,19 concerning regulations in force at the civilian internment camp Mytho in Indochina.

There is now enclosed, for the Department’s information and records, a copy and translation of a note dated August 6, 1945, from the Swiss Foreign Office.19 It may be noted that visits to this camp are no longer permitted and that leave from the camp has been forbidden.20

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  3. In telegram 3827, August 7, 2 p.m., the Minister in Switzerland reported that the Swiss Consul at Saigon no longer received information concerning POWs interned at Saigon but had been able to effect a further shipment of food, clothing, and some medicines to them on July 9 “by special favor”. (711.93114A/8–745)↩