Office of the Historian

File No. 861.77/503

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell)

[Telegram]
Washington, October 3, 1918, 6 p.m.

For Morris:

Measures suggested your September 20 [30], 9 p.m., both as regards Chinese Eastern and other lines approved. The Department is gratified by your able handling of this difficult question and appreciates your lucid analysis of the situation, both as regards military problems and also this pressing matter of the railways.

Before approving the suggested possibility of your proceeding westward the Department believes that it would be better to reach some clear conclusion in regard to your expected reports on economic and social assistance.

Lansing