861.00/4722: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace

2355. For the Secretary of State and McCormick:9

Referring my 2343 and 2346 yesterday’s date, Consul General Harris reports Omsk Government is very anxious to learn what the nature of Allied assistance is to be and, in view of another possible winter campaign against Bolsheviki, if such help may be expected soon. In this connection he reports June 18 officially announced Ufa abandoned and now occupied by Bolsheviki. Fighting still in progress around city. I shall be relieved to know measures are under way for prompt and tangible support.

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