861.00/5464: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Tenney) to the Secretary of State
[Extract]
Peking, October 23,
1919.
[Received October 24, 11:30 p.m.]
[Received October 24, 11:30 p.m.]
[From Harris at Omsk:]
437, October 23, 6 p.m.
. . . . . . .
Colonel Johnson here in Omsk has just received the following instruction from Colonel Emerson in Harbin:
“As fast as Czechs evacuate back of railway which they are now patrolling you will withdraw all technical inspectors with them.”
The importance of this instruction and the unfortunate impressions it will undoubtedly make on the Russian people is something which the Department may imagine and upon which it is unnecessary for me to comment. Harris.
Tenney