Office of the Historian

861.00/6005: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Wallace)

Washington, January 7, 1920, 7 p.m.

41. For Rathbone from Davis. Treasury R–148.

Reference your R–174, December 27,39 and supplementing my R–141,40 paragraph three.

General Hines advises under date January 3, that repairs on the two transports allotted for this movement, namely, the America and President Grant, will consume approximately fifteen days. If resurvey confirms this, these vessels will be unable to arrive Vladivostok before February 10, although every effort being made to expedite arrival at Vladivostok by working day and night on repairs. As soon as vessels sail from New York shall advise you definite date arrival first ship Vladivostok. Norman H. Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

Lansing
  1. Supra.↩
  2. Not printed.↩