861.00/4342: Telegram
The Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell) to the Acting Secretary of State
Vladivostok, April 21,
1919, 1 p.m.
[Received April 22, 7:26 a.m.]
[Received April 22, 7:26 a.m.]
239. Supplementing my cipher telegram number 230, April 17th [18th], 5 p.m. British cruiser Kent has returned from America Bay where she fired about 60 shells, 6-inch, at persons presumed to be prepared to resist landing of Omsk Government troops going to [Page 490] rescue of comrades Vladimir Alexandrofka. Hostility against Allies caused by such action by Great Britain will be felt not by Great Britain but by others as she cannot be attacked on sea and apparently will not have troops guarding railway.
Caldwell