File No. 861.77/114
The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 2, 1.25 p.m.]
1434. For Willard2 [from Stevens]:
Arranged for building locomotive erecting plant, Vladivostok. In need of information asked for regarding cranes, machinery. Arranged for increasing capacity car erecting plant Vladivostok. Shipment tools on order should be hurried. When can we expect [Page 193] them? What is status shipment locomotives and cars on order? If anything in my Panama proposition suggest our Government give to Russian Government, free of price, its engines, Brown hoists and other cranes. In need of boilers one to two hundred horse. Am certain it would be appreciated by Russians and free us at once any implication trying to work off lot second rate material at high prices. Our Government can afford to do this, the machinery being of little or no value to it. Will simply lie Panama and rust.
- Daniel Willard, railway president and chairman of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense.↩