Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/2335c

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell)1

[Telegram]
Tokyo, July 13, 1918, 5 p.m.

Please obtain information desired for Military Intelligence Branch General Staff concerning Czecho-Slovaks, Red Guards, armed and unarmed prisoners of war as to: (1) Location of forces; (2) numerical strength; (3) movements; (4) number and make of rifles and ammunition supply; (5) artillery: number and size of guns and ammunition supply.

Inform Harris this information desired also from Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Chelyabinsk, and other places in Siberia.

Polk

  1. The same, on the same date, to the Consul at Moscow, except that the final paragraph reads as follows:

    This information desired from all points of Russia that you are able to reach and especially along Volga River and Orenburg district.

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