861.77/825 a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis)
5244. Please read following cable from Consul-General Harris to Minister for Foreign Affairs and say that this Department concurs in the views expressed by Consul-General Harris in allowing the Inter-Allied Committee for supervising the railways in Siberia to take preeminence in all matters affecting policy so that both the Technical Board and the military boards may act along lines consistent with attitude assumed by Inter-Allied Committee. Please repeat to Paris for similar action and to Am[erican] mission, giving the sense of these instructions.
[Here follows text of message from Consul General Harris contained in telegram from the Ambassador in Japan April 19, ante, page 333.]
For your information and also Embassy Paris, Department is instructing Ambassador Morris at Tokyo to inquire of the Japanese Government whether it will not agree to limiting use of military forces in Siberia to the preservation of order in the immediate vicinity of the railways and to suppress local violence of conflicting Russian forces only when such conflicts affect the despatch of trains for the operation of the railways and even then only to the extent necessary to protect the railways and those engaged in its operation.