861.00/4423: Telegram
The Chargé in Russia (Poole) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received May 4, 7:45 a.m.]
1137. 104 to Paris. As a result of special measures the ice is now pretty well cleared from the river above Archangel. Two monitors left today for the region of Beresashinik [Beresnik] where Bolshevik gunboats have attacked but have been driven off by the Allied artillery. A Bolshevik infantry attack on the Vaga has been repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. Unless there are unexpected developments on the river the military situation may now be said to have passed out of its dangerous phase.
It is reported from Murmansk that General Maynard is moving his headquarters about 250 miles south along the Murman Railway to Kem. The purpose of the Finnish operations around Lake Ladoga remains unclear.