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File No. 861.51/145

The Ambassador in Russia ( Francis ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Petrograd , May 11, 1917, midnight .
[Received May 13, 7 a.m.]

1275. For Secretary of the Treasury:

[Page 9]

Your 1386 received to-day. May [they?] accept it and Minister for Foreign Affairs says plan entirely satisfactory. Minister of Finance authorized Russian Chargé d’Affaires, Washington, act for Russia until Bakhmeteff 1 arrives about June 15.

Francis
  1. Boris A. Bakhmeteff, head of the Russian mission to the United States, and later, July 5, 1917, Ambassador at Washington.↩