861.00/4839: Telegram
The Minister in China (Reinsch) to the Acting Secretary of State
Peking, undated.
[Received July 12, 1919, 8:20 a.m.]
[Received July 12, 1919, 8:20 a.m.]
Following from [Harris at] Omsk.
“317. July 10, noon. From reliable source have learned that on June 14th Japanese proposed to Omsk Government plan of sending Japanese troops to front. Omsk Government apparently favorable to plan. Negotiations being carried on at present which provides that a Japanese division of 40,000 men shall be sent in Siberia under guise of protecting railway when Czechs evacuate. Japanese troops however are to be sent immediately to Ural front to participate in fighting. [Harris.]”
Reinsch