File No. 861.00/3530
The Minister in Switzerland (Stovall) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Berne, December
24, 1918, 1 p.m.
[Received December 26, 6.50 p.m.]
[Received December 26, 6.50 p.m.]
6260. For Committee on Public Information from Whitehouse:
No. 1087. For Lithuanian National Assembly [Council?] from Pakstas. Dvinsk and Sventsiany taken by Bolsheviki. Vilna in greatest danger. Lithuanian Government fleeing from capital. Germans refused to sell rifles for Lithuanian army and means of communication given up to Bolsheviki. Lithuanian Government requested American troops several times.
Stovall