Office of the Historian

File No. 165.009/9a

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Norway (Schmedeman)1

Department of State,
Washington, October 16, 1914.

[Telegram]

American cotton shippers are desirous of ascertaining whether. Norwegian authorities would prevent exportation of cotton, which is not contraband, shipped from the United States to Norway and destined for Germany. Investigate this matter promptly and report by telegraph.

Lansing
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, to the Ministers in Sweden and Denmark and the Ambassador in Italy (No. 61).↩