File No. 861.00/1213
The Consul General at Moscow (Summers) to the Ambassador in Russia
[Copy received March 2.]
… Contests between Maximalist and Siberian federationists have occurred in all the larger cities along the Siberian Railway. A battle raged an entire week at Irkutsk, twelve principal streets being devastated. The Maximalists seem to have had rather the better of the fighting there: The more westerly and southwesterly portions of Siberia are securely federationist. A Siberian republic, designed to bridge over the present period of anarchy and to further the formation of a general Russian federation, is in formation at Omsk [Tomsk?]. The Siberian Railway is operated with more success than the railways of northern and central Russia. Food is abundant. The people are prosperous and self-reliant. …
- Printed in full, vol. i, p. 338.↩