Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume II

File No. 861.00/7415

The British Ambassador (Reading) to the Secretary of State

[July 11, 1918]

[A copy of the following paraphrase of a telegram was handed to the Secretary on July 11, 1918:]

The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Balfour) to the Ambassador at Washington

July 10, 1918.

Czechs at Vladivostok. Instructions have been issued for the British garrison battalion at Hong Kong to proceed immediately to Vladivostok in order to replace the Czechs there, who are starting a movement on Irkutsk.