File No. 861.00/3460

The Chargé in Russia (Poole) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

664. Local situation generally quiet and satisfactory. Announcement by the Allied command and embassies reported my No. 658, December 12, 7 p.m., seems to have had good effect, reassuring elements of the left.

Vigor with which mutiny, reported in Embassy’s telegram 654, December 11, 8 p.m., was handled, and the fact that executions were carried out entirely by Russians, has produced favorable effect; only thirteen were executed instead of thirty as originally reported. Bulk of soldiers have expressed themselves satisfied to be free of agitators; company designated for service at the front has again received its arms and went forward with apparently good morale; I have had no reports as yet concerning its further behavior.

Foregoing to Paris also.

Poole