American Minister, Copenhagen.
The following documents deserve careful consideration:
Memorandum communicated by American Embassy.
November 9, 1914.
The American Embassy has the honour to submit the following copy of a telegram which the Ambassador at Berlin has sent to the Department of State at Washington:
“Order for internment British between 17 and 55 has gone into effect. This does not apply to clericals, doctors, or women, or to British subjects from colonies or protectorates where Germans are not interned. German Government wishes to receive official information regarding such colonies, as it understands Germans are interned in South Africa. Germany is willing to release men over 45 if England will do so. Germans over 45, except officers, have no compulsory military obligations.”
American Embassy, London, Nov. 9, 1914.
Memorandum by Sir Edward Grey.
The American Ambassador asked me to-day whether the American Embassy would be allowed, as reports were being made in Germany about the treatment of German civilians in England, to send someone to visit the Germans interned in Newbury and Newcastle.
The Ambassador also said that he had received specific complaints from Germans interned in Queensferry.
He has given me the following copy of a letter from the American Ambassador in Berlin.