File No. 861.48/421
The Ambassador in France ( Sharp ) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 6, 1.30 a.m.]
2852. [From House]:
The representatives of Great Britain, of Italy, of China, of France, in session at Paris, December 3, 1917, with the representatives of the United States and Japan decide after examination of the actual [Page 105] situation in Russia that the representatives of the two last powers should without delay ask their Governments for instructions with a view to assuring the provisioning of Russia by the Trans-Siberian Railway and by at once anticipating the measures necessary to enable these provisions to reach their destination even in case of disorders.
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