File No. 871.48/39a
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia ( Francis )
[Telegram]
Washington
,
October 15, 1917, 7 p.m.
1779. It is regarded of the highest importance that you join with your British and French colleagues in urging the Russian Government to furnish proper supplies to the Roumanians. The Department will be glad to be informed of the practicability of the Russian Government providing stores of food-stuffs in Bessarabia for Roumania.
Lansing