File No. 861.00/2499a
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Morris)
[Telegram]
Washington, August
15, 1918, 1 p.m.
Entire strength American expeditionary forces ordered Vladivostok as follows:
Force consists of two regiments with a combined combatant strength of 7,398 men with 251 officers. Attached to the force are noncombatants of complementary units totaling 1,375 men in hospital, bakery, intelligence, ambulance, supply, medical, telegraph, and similar bodies.
Repeat to Peking and Vladivostok.
Lansing