File No. 861.00/2052
The Consul at Moscow (Poole) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 18, 1918, 12:12 a.m.]
626 [?]. Thomson telegraphs from Omsk under date June 3 in part as follows:
Local authorities have now permitted me to give out the following concerning the local situation. Omsk and the vicinity are as heretofore under martial law; passenger and railway communication eastward to Irkutsk and westward to Chelyabinsk has stopped. No trains with provisions are passing to Chelyabinsk; telegraph communication with the east has been stopped by the new Siberian government at Novo Nikolaevsk, therefore, information concerning communication in the east is lacking. Counter-revolutionary activities occurring in Altai region. Stations of Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Petro-pavlovsk, Isil are in hands Czecho-Slovak detachments. No further military activities have taken place on western Omsk front. At present time pourparlers being carried on here between Soviet on one hand and French mission and Czechs on other, with view toward liquidating incident in peaceful manner and permitting Czech detachments to proceed on their journey to Vladivostok unmolested.