861.00/4400: Telegram
The Consul at Vladivostok (Caldwell) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received April 30, 1:24 a.m.]
262. Referring to my telegram of General Graves dated yesterday40 regarding relations between American, Russian and Japanese military here and to [from] Harris 212 dated today.41 There is imminent possibility of American troops being forced into armed conflict with Russians, troops of Ivanoff-Rinoff or peasant Bolshevik bands or even both. Situation cannot be permanently improved without adoption of uniform policy by all Allied Governments. Support of Ivanoff-Rinoff, Semenoff, and Kalmikoff with arms, military supplies and money by … any one country without knowledge definite assent of other associated countries must be stopped and this cannot be effected here.