Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Russia

861.00/3803 a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Sharp)

Washington, January 25, 1919, 8 p.m.

7147. For Am[erican] mission and McCormick⁸² to note last sentence. Following cable received by War Department from General Graves at Vladivostok.

“141. January 20. There are indications that Czech situation in Siberia is serious. General Stefanik now en route home. Czech officers here deny that there is any serious trouble. Information from American sources in Western Siberia and from those returning from Urals cause me to think the Czechs can not be held in Siberia much longer. Property recently received from the United States for Czechs is not being shipped west.”

Polk

82. Vance McCormick, chairman of the War Trade Board and technical adviser to the Commission to Negotiate Peace.