Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume II

File No. 861.00/1355

The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Stockholm, March 23, 1918.
[Received 4.56 p.m.]

1755. Swedish press reports from Petrograd demobilization on front completed. Yesterday last military organizations dissolved. Reports labor council at Simferopol has advised Smolny as to establishment of independent Taurida republic comprising whole of Crimea and has submitted list of delegates to Council of People’s Commissioners of new republic.

Morris