852.2221/406: Telegram
The Consul at Bordeaux (George) to the Secretary of State
Bordeaux, May 13, 1937—10
a.m.
[Received May 13—9 a.m.]
[Received May 13—9 a.m.]
My May 11, 11 a.m. and May 11, 5 p.m. Prefecture at Toulouse informs me prisoners intend when released to proceed to Belgium through frontier at Jeumont and that when notified their American passports will be available only for return to the United States and delivered only on embarkation they persisted in their declared intention, refusing to sign an administrative acknowledgment of this notification.
French authorities will release party without escort tomorrow.
George