Office of the Historian

File No. 861.24/50

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia (Francis)1

[Telegram]
Washington, March 27, 1918, 7 p.m.

29. Your 29, March 23, via Vladivostok received 26th. No tonnage available for food shipments to Archangel. United States did not join in statement regarding supplies accumulated Archangel. British have controlled Archangel since early days of war under convention similar to that affecting Boulogne and Havre in France.

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  1. Sent via the Consulate at Vladivostok.↩