File No. 861.51/423
The Russian Ambassador (Bakhmeteff) to the Secretary of State
Washington, November 30,
1918.
[Received December
2.]
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to
transmit to you copy of cable received by the Russian Embassy from
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Omsk which confirms the Omsk
government’s responsibility for all liabilities of the Russian state
treasury.
I avail [etc.]
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[Enclosure—Paraphrase]
The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs at Omsk to the Russian
Embassy
Undated.
[Received November 29, 1918.]
Kindly bring to the knowledge of the United States Government
that the government which is headed by Admiral Kolchak as its supreme
chief,1
bearing in mind that Russia had always sacredly executed all
liabilities towards its own subjects as well as towards nations
with which it is bound by treaties, deems it necessary to state
in the declaration of November 21, that it under takes to
fulfil, as soon as united Russia is reconstructed, all the
liabilities of the state treasury, i. e., payment of interest
and amortization on interior and exterior state loans, payments
on contracts, salaries of employees, pensions and all other
legal foundations. The government at the same time, declares all
financial acts of the Soviet powers as acts published by
mutineers as illegal and not liable to execution.