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Letterhead, top left of page NEW YORK, 556 & 558 FIFTH AVENUE. PARIS, 17, PLACE VENDOME. CABLE ADDRESSES KNOEDLER, PICCY, LONDON. KNOEDLER, NEW YORK. KNOEDLER, PARIS. TELEPHONE 2514 MAYFAIR.
Letterhead, top right of page
15, OLD BOND STREET,
LONDON, W.
OFFICE OF H. C. FRICK RECEIVED AUG 6 1915 FORWARDED REFERRED ANSWERED
In pencil, semi-encircled, indecipherable word or initial
Per S. S. St. Louis.
23rd July 1915.
H. C. Frick, Esq.,
Prides Crossing,
Massachusetts.
Dear Mr. Frick,
I duly received your cable. I found it was not necessary for me to go to Paris and I understand it is more or less difficult for Americans: also there is a certain amount of danger. I therefore wrote our Paris house and asked George Davey to go and see about your furniture and cable you, and presume by this time you have heard from him.
We had a very quiet and uneventful crossing. I was glad to arrive in London. Everything is in a state of calm here - people seem to be getting accustomed to the war and are working into a proper state of efficiency. The great trouble is ammunition. I am told that should the Germans make such a drive as they did in Russia we have not sufficient ammunition to meet it. However, they are making up now for lost time and are beginning to accumulate a sufficient supply which, in the course of five or six weeks, will put England in a much better position. I am told, however, that they don't contemplate making any offensive movement. It is a case of gradually wearing the enemy down. The feeling is that an offensive movement would necessitate
In pencil, lower right corner of page [HC.317.018]