File No. 861.77/479
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)
1550. You will please refer to Department’s telegram of September 132 concerning Mr. Stevens and the members of the Russian Railway Service Corps.
You will please say to the British Government that inasmuch as the French, Japanese, and Chinese Governments, the Russian Ambassador at Washington, the Russian Minister at Peking, and Dr. Masaryk speaking for the Czecho-Slovak[s], have expressed agreement [Page 264] to the proposal of the United States Government, the Japanese with the modification that operation be under military protection to which we have agreed, and in view of the necessities of the case, it is presumed the British Government will also agree and it is hoped they will forthwith instruct their representatives in Siberia to cooperate. Matter is also being taken up again with British Chargé d’Affaires here.