File No. 861.00/712
The Consul at Odessa ( Ray ) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Odessa
,
November
20, 1917, 2 p.m.
[Received November 24, 6.42 a.m.]
[Received November 24, 6.42 a.m.]
The arrangement between revolutionary committees broken by Ukrainian troops who proclaimed the annexation of Odessa to [Page 649] Ukrainia November 15.1 Movement unpopular among Jewish population but supported by the Black Sea Fleet and railroads. No serious disorders.
Ray
- For the communication to foreign states of the Ukrainian Rada’s declaration of temporary independence, voted Nov. 7/20, see despatch No. 244 of Jan. 1, 1918, from the Consul General at Moscow, vol. i, p. 408.↩