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The British Chargé ( Barclay ) to the Acting Secretary of State 9

No. 55

Memorandum

His Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires presents his compliments to the Acting Secretary of State and has the honour to inform him, by direction of His Majesty’s Government and with reference to the memorandum from this Embassy No. 43 of January 15th, that His Majesty’s Government have received a telegram from the British High Commissioner in Siberia stating that the Omsk Government have heard that Monsieur Sazonoff is going to Paris and that they have expressed the hope that he will act as their Agent and as the agent of the other new Governments in Russia as well as of Deniken.

The British High Commissioner has requested the Foreign Office to cause the wish of the Omsk Government to be conveyed to Monsieur Sazonoff.

  1. Transmitted to the Commission to Negotiate Peace in Department’s telegram No. 497, Jan. 30, 1919, 4 p.m.