File No. 867.48/403
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Alexandria (Garrels)
Department’s telegram August 23.1 Department has received following telegram from Zionist committee:
With respect to our request for assistance to enable us to send medical unit and drugs to Palestine, and with respect further to the movement of drugs now in Alexandria on which Department is trying to arrange transportation facilities, desire to call your attention cholera-has broken out in Palestine causing 50 deaths among Arabs in Tēl ‘Adās, 120 in El Affūle. Damascus also stricken. Speedy action is from every humanitarian standpoint most desirable.
Prompt reply on this matter urgently desired. Navy Department is ready to direct Des Moines to transport supplies from Alexandria to Jaffa as soon as you arrange for passage of blockade.
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