Office of the Historian

File No. 150.07/17

The French Chargé d’Affaires (Clausse) to the Secretary of State

French Embassy,
Manchester, Massachusetts, August 14, 1914.
[Received August 17.]

Mr. Secretary of State: The United States Commissioner of Immigration at Montreal has told the Consul of France at that city that he needed authorization to let into American territory such French reservists as should have to proceed individually and at their expense from Montreal to New York there to take ship.

I should be obliged to your excellency if you would kindly have the agent of the Federal Government at Montreal instructed accordingly as soon as possible. Be pleased to accept [etc.]

Clausse