File No. 861.00/2610
The British Embassy
to the Department of State
[Washington, August 23,
1918]
[The following paraphrase of a telegram was received by the
Department of State on August 23, 1918:]
The British Ambassador in
France to the British Foreign
Office
[undated],
[Received August 21,
1918]
The French Government have intimated their agreement as to the
urgency of establishing Czech police at Vladivostok with Allied
help. They draw attention to the fact that the Czechs were
hitherto unwilling to intervene out of respect for the liberty
of the Russian population. The recent pro-Bolshevist election at
Vladivostok is the result of this. The French Consul at
Vladivostok has been instructed by his Government to act in
concert with his British, Japanese and American colleagues, with
a view to the formation of a police force for the town of
Vladivostok, in agreement with the Czechs, as, in order to avoid
arousing any suspicion, inter-Allied policing of towns in
Siberia is desirable.
