861.00/5464: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Irkutsk (Harris), temporarily at Omsk
Washington, October 25,
1919, 5 p.m.
Your 437, October 23, 6 p.m. The Department has taken up urgently with Stevens the question of the withdrawal of the Allied railway inspectors. The last message from Stevens indicates that it may not be necessary to withdraw them immediately upon the departure of the Czechs. It remains, however, of the utmost importance that the Russian railway officials assume a conciliatory and compliant attitude.
Phillips