Office of the Historian

File No. 861.51/258

The Consul General at Moscow (Summers) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Moscow, January 7, 1918, 12 noon.
[Received January 9, 5.20 p.m.]

148. The de facto government has ordered all safety vaults in bank [opened] and money taken therefrom. I am protesting jointly with Consular Corps and they have agreed that if they are opened notwithstanding protest, consular officer must be present. These continued acts of violence ruining banks and industry.

Summers