ave received from the
Minister at Copenhagen relating to reports on the imprisonment
of German subjects in England.

Inasmuch as the Minister at Copenhagen has dispatched this to
the Secretary of State at Washington, it seems probable that I
shall receive definite instructions from him to transmit it to
you, but in view of the desirability of an early consideration
of the matter I now venture to submit this copy of the telegram
for your information.

I have, etc.,
WALTER HINES PAGE.

Copy of Telegram received October 29, 1914.

Following telegram sent to Department to-day (by the Ambassador
at Berlin):

The Foreign Office requests this Embassy to find out through the
American Embassy in London whether the reports concerning the
imprisonment of German subjects in England are well founded.
Unless a reply is received from the British Government before
November 5 that all Germans who have not rendered themselves
especially suspicious have been released, the German Government
will be obliged to take retaliatory measures, and accordingly
arrest all male British subjects in Germany between 17 and 55
years. American Minister, Copenhagen.

Copy of Telegram received from Berlin by the American Embassy,
November 3, 1914.

Are Germans over 45 being arrested wholesale in England? If
arrests are only of those under 45, I may be able to keep
English over that age out of jail. Will not British Government
allow all over 45 to leave? That is the legal military age here,
and no one over that age can be compelled to serve.

_Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Page, United States Ambassador in
London._

Foreign Office,
November 9, 1914.

Your Excellency,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
Excellency's note of the 30th ult., and of subsequent notes
informing me of the attitude likely to be adopted by the German
Government with regard to the measures that have been taken in
this country for the detention of German subjects of military
age.

The decision of His Majesty's Government in this respect being
clearly irrevocable, the communications which you were good
enough to trans