861.00/5021: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Morris), temporarily at Omsk, to the Secretary of State
[Received August 13, 7:34 p.m.]
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I recommend the release of the notes at Vladivostok although I appreciate the difficulties suggested in your August 8, 7 p.m. I doubt whether the Kolchak Government can or will use them under present conditions; but if requested I think Heid should be instructed to deliver them. The establishment of the yen in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria would in my judgment be most unfortunate. We have no American banks interested in the proposal to buy rubles; the French and British banks will, I think, accept the proposal; and the Japanese banks will, of course, refuse.
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