File No. 861.77/260a
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell)
[Telegram]
Washington, December
28, 1917, 5 p.m.
Please advise fully as to conditions which prevented landing of railway corps and necessitated departure Nagasaki. Department also desires your opinion whether conditions are shaping to justify return of railway corps. Party will be held Japan reasonable time, possibly thirty days.
Lansing