Office of the Historian

File No. 150.07/57

The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador (Spring Rice)

Department of State,
Washington, December 4, 1914.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: Referring to your note of October 27 last, relative to the issuance of general instructions to the immigration officials at Montreal to allow the reservists of Great Britain to pass through the United States en route to the United Kingdom, I beg to advise you of the receipt of a letter from the Acting Secretary of labor, stating that such instructions have been sent to the Commissioner of Immigration at Montreal.1

I am [etc.]

W. J. Bryan
  1. They were sent November 19 in response to a request of November 17 from the Department of State, without regard to the further question raised in the note printed, ante, p. 568.↩