Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/2029

The Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Vladivostok, June 15, 1918, 5 p.m.
[Received 5.20 p.m.]

Following from Irkutsk, 14th:

Drysdale reports Czechs now fighting Red Guards near Omsk. Armistice Mariinsk-Irkutsk front ends June 16. Consider agreement between Czechs and Bolsheviks not probable. If agreement not made, consider it advisable urge immediate return of Czechs now in Vladivostok to Karymskaya and Irkutsk to insure passage of Czechs now in western Siberia. American and French Consuls General, Irkutsk, concur. Harris.

Tokyo, Peking, and Harbin informed.

Caldwell