861.00/5411: Telegram
The Consul at Murmansk (Pierce) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:22 p.m.]
The evacuation Allied forces was carried out to the limit including British consulate and the British signed [sic] ship named Glory. Quiet restored at Murmansk as well as along the coast, and the morale at the front position between two lakes north of Petrozavodsk is favorable in spite of the fact flank railroad bridges in the rear were destroyed but were repaired in as many days and the bandits caught and punished. Latest information is [received?] from Archangel are [is?] encouraging although refugees continue to arrive from there. The Russian general commanding informs me that some American citizens have been released from Soviet Russian territory and I have replied requesting they be allowed to proceed here immediately.