Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Russia

861.00/3891: Telegram

The Commission to Negotiate Peace to the Acting Secretary of State

Paris, February 20, 1919, noon.
[Received 3:13 p.m.]

834. Esthonian delegation states an arrangement made between Governments of Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania for common struggle against Bolsheviks. They add Esthonian troops having cleared own territories have entered Latvia on the whole front to a distance of 50 kilometers while behind this front Lettish Government is organizing Lettish forces and state Sweden, Finland, and Denmark have given permission to enroll volunteers of whom 1,000 already enlisted.

Am[erican] Mission