862t.01/35: Telegram

The Ambassador in France ( Wallace ) to the Secretary of State

915. Mission. Referring to my no. 907, April 6.29 Following is translation of Goeppert’s reply to M. Millerand’s note of April 330 copy of which together with copy of Millerand’s note was sent me this afternoon by the German delegation.

“Referring to the letter addressed yesterday by Your Excellency in your position of French Minister for Foreign Affairs to the German Chargé d’Affaires, I have the honor to beg you kindly to inform the Allied and Associated Governments of the following:

As the police action against the gangs of plunderers in the Ruhr Basin which did not observe the agreement of Bielefeld has given more satisfactory results than could be expected it has been possible already to liberate several of the most important points which were in the hands of these gangs such as Duisburg, Oberhausen, Sterkrade and Recklinghausen. The German Government expects this action to end in seven days so that the evacuation of the neutral zone by the insignificant reinforcements which entered into it lately may begin at that time.

In consequence the German Government requests that all eventual measures be suspended until the expiration of this short period.[”]

Wallace
  1. Not printed.
  2. Note of Apr. 3 is summarized in telegram no. 273, Apr. 4, from the Commissioner at Berlin, p. 306.