File No. 861.00/1196
The Chargé in China (Spencer) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 3, 1.18 p.m.]
Following received from Consul at Harbin for transmission to you:
March 1, 11 p.m. I am informed by high authority of new organization formed here to support Semenov under leadership of Kudaehev, Horvat, Rusanov, provisional commissioner of Priamur district, Lavrov, provisional commissioner of Irkutsk. They are enlisting men and yesterday sent four field guns, fifteen machine guns to Semenov. It is proposed to organize army restoration Far East and popular government Siberia under Admiral Kolchak now in Shanghai. Semenov to advance to Irkutsk and there await support of Japanese whose money and forces already promised. Later telegrams from Semenov report Bolsheviks fighting on railway at west stations Manchuria [Manchuria Station?] and all west-bound trains being held up there. Moser.