861.00/4520: Telegram
The Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received May 18, 2:23 p.m.]
306. Following from Harris repeated.7
“228, 16th. Uprising along railway continues serious. Most dangerous point is the Taishet district. Trains are being cannonaded every day. Estimated strength of rebels between Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk 6,000, but number increasing as Bolsheviki are recruiting from local population. Czech General Syrovy informed me today that in future would throw full military strength of Czechs against movement and would shortly crush it. There would be some delay owing to lack of locomotives.
Railway and telegraphic communication with west have been interrupted since yesterday and I am unable to proceed at present.8 Harris.[”]