File No. 861.00/1980

The Ambassador in Italy ( Page ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

1708. Department’s 1395. De Giers, Russian Ambassador, states that he is now able to communicate with Russian political men in [Page 195] Russia and get a reply within a week. He says that he received information yesterday that all parties from socialists to Cadets and moderate monarchists are together. They cannot ask that military expedition be sent, but hope it will. He gave me a report from General Miller, ex-commandant of army corps of southern Russia, and Colonel Niemchenko, who was attached to the Russian administration for military supplies in Italy, upon a possible Allied military entry and establishment in Russia. Report sent by mail.1

Nelson Page
  1. Not printed.