Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/425

The Ambassador in Russia ( Francis) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Petrograd, July 19, 1917, 2 p.m.
[Received July 23, 2.50 a.m.]

1531. Quiet prevailed throughout yesterday and last night. Loyal troops arrived from front, number unknown. Are now surrounding palace on other side Neva which been headquarters Bolsheviks and which near Peter Paul prison where Sturmer, Protopopov and others confined.1 Reported that prison garrison will aid Bolsheviks if resistance offered but uncertain.

Francis
  1. See ante, p. 3.↩