Office of the Historian

File No. 861.77/78a

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

[Telegram]
Washington, May 15, 1917, 4 p.m.

1404. The following Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia has been appointed: John F. Stevens, chairman; John G. Greiner, George Gibbs, W. L. Darling, Henry Miller, members; accompanied by Franklin Reading, secretary and disbursing officer; Edward P. Shannon, secretary; C. A. Decker, stenographer; Eugene C. Stevens, clerk; Leslie R. Fellows, stenographer.

They sailed on the 14th instant from Vancouver by the Empress of India and will arrive at Vladivostok.

Advise Government in order that proper instructions may be sent to Russian authorities at Vladivostok.

Lansing