File No. 861.00/1426
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
London,
April 4, 1918, 11 p.m.
[Received April 4, 4.45 p.m.]
[Received April 4, 4.45 p.m.]
9351. Your 7128, April 3, 6 p.m. The British Government takes the attitude that the old Russian Embassy no longer possesses any governmental representative capacity, and while it is on excellent terms with the members of the Embassy individually, the privilege of telegraphing in cipher has been withheld.
Foreign Office occasionally send telegrams for Nabokov, old Russian Chargé d’Affaires, in their own cipher at his request.
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