Office of the Historian

861.00/4972b: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell)

Washington, July 22, 1919, 5 p.m.

For Heid.98 War Trade Board’s 189 June 25, 7 p.m.99 Impression received here based on a report from General Cecek1 is that expenses [Page 291] in connection with repatriation wounded Czechoslovak soldiers are being borne by United States, and it is also reported that this misapprehension has been spread throughout Siberia. For your information, and kindly inform General Cecek and Dr. Girsa,2 all expenses connected with repatriation of these soldiers are being paid by Czechoslovak Legation here from funds loaned to Czechoslovak Republic by United States Government.

Phillips
  1. August Heid, representative at Vladivostok of the War Trade Board.↩
  2. Not printed.↩
  3. Gen. Stanislav Ċeček, Czechoslovak Commander at Vladivostok.↩
  4. Václav Girsa, Czechoslovak Commissioner in Siberia.↩