File No. 861.00/2441b
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Morris)
We have just been advised by the Japanese Embassy here as follows:
It has been reported that the Bolsheviki north of Khabarovsk are showing signs of great unrest under the guidance of German officers and that they are preparing in the Amur River, presumably in the upper currents, boats with the inferred intention of sending them to sea, and that the Japanese Government has further heard that there are disorders at Nikolaevsk at the mouth of the Amur River and that the Japanese Government had sent some torpedo boats to protect Japanese interests in Nikolaevsk.
Repeat to Peking.