861.77/370½
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Memorandum
The British Embassy have received a telegram from the Foreign Office, from which it appears that the Bolshevist Government asked the United States Ambassador in Russia for the services of American railway experts. The American Ambassador accordingly sent for one hundred of the three hundred American railway experts in the Far East to go to Vologda.
The Foreign Office point out that the transit westward of Siberian supplies and of the stores of the Allies at Vladivostock and Archangel will [not?] be facilitated by any improvement which is made in the Russian railway system, unless this is done under the control of the Allies.
The British Embassy are, therefore, instructed to call the attention of the Department of State to this matter and to express the hope that great circumspection will be used in the employment of the American engineers.