Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/3156

The Consul General at Irkutsk (Harris) to the Secretary of State1

[Telegram]
Irkutsk, November 4, 1918.
[Received November 5, 3.45 a.m.]

166. 1, November l.2 At 2 o’clock in the morning an armed band of Bolsheviks started an uprising in Tomsk. They were assisted by one regiment of the Siberian forces stationed in Tomsk. The prison was broken open and inmates freed. A munition factory and railway station were captured. The revolt has been quelled by Siberian troops. Three hundred Bolsheviks are dead and wounded. Six Siberians are reported killed.

Harris
  1. Sent via the Legation in China.↩
  2. Apparently from Consul Jameson, temporarily at Tomsk.↩