File No. 861.85/40
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul at Vladivostok ( Caldwell )
[Telegram]
Washington
,
August 7, 1918, 6
p.m.
Department’s [telegram of July 20, answering your] 42. British Ministry of Shipping has informed our Embassy at London that steamers Tobolsk and Indighirka are not being held at Hong Kong, but are employed in important services from which they can not be spared.
Polk