123 T 71/146: Telegram
The Consul at Helsingfors ( Haynes ) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 6:33 p.m.]
229. From Gade 47 to Nav[al] intel[ligence].
“Urgent for the Secretary of State. Believe I have found basis for obtaining delivery of Tredwell to me. I am sending emissary to Petrograd tonight empowering him to inform Bolshevik they can purchase from America at current prices for about $260,000 of drugs, namely typhus and cholera serum, quinine, camphor, etc., which Denmark will deliver at once by our permitting Danish export and guaranteeing immediate payment in kind. Bolshevik will be required in return to deliver to me on border about one hundred American, British and French prisoners, including Tredwell and three recent American prisoners taken at Archangel, Kalamaya (Kalamatiano?) and two others. Please reply by telegraph to me through Haynes, Helsingfors, full discretionary power to make bargain.[”]
- Lt. Comdr. John A. Gade, Naval Attaché at Copenhagen.↩