Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 1, The World War, Volume I

File No. 763.72/10309

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

No. 638

Memorandum

[Extract]¹

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The Allied Governments have come to the conclusion that a reexamination of the question of transporting German and Austrian subjects from China to Australia is necessary, owing to the threat of severe reprisals from the German Government and to a consequential request from the Belgian Government for a further consideration of the subject. …

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Washington , June 10th, 1918.
[Received June 11.]

1. Memorandum printed in full in Foreign Relations, 1918, Russia, vol. II, pp. 199–200.