861.00/5032: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:55 p.m.]
2797. Following from [Cole at] Archangel:
1378, August 13th, 7 p.m. Reliable information from the Onega district indicates that the entire 5th Northern Rifle Regiment which mutinied and admitted the Bolsheviki in order to “stop the fighting” has been remobilized by the Bolsheviki and given its former name with the addition of the words “of the Soviet Republic”. The peasants are apparently being well treated, payment being made for requisitions. No organized atrocities in the district have been reported except a few officers including [one?] British who was murdered during the mutiny. The Russian officers have been sent to Moscow and nothing is known as to their fate there. A few arrests were made in the city and these persons were sent south. The Zemstvo and City Duma are abolished and Soviets reestablished. All non-Bolshevik currency including the British guaranteed roubles is being replaced by Bolshevik money rouble for rouble. Cole.