123 G 11/10b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis)
6078. Following for your information and circulation to Paris and Scandinavian Missions, latter to repeat to Consuls including Helsingfors:
Mr. John A. Gade has been appointed Commissioner of the United States for the Baltic Provinces of Russia and sailed from New York in an Army Transport for Brest October 8. He will proceed from Brest to Riga or Reval in a Naval vessel and will be accompanied by a Chauffeur and Secretary and also Mr. Hurley, American Consul at Reval, and possibly an officer of the Army who will be attached to him as a military observer.
Mr. Gade is commissioned as a special representative of the Department and is not accredited to any Government of Russia but is merely directed to proceed to the Baltic Provinces to observe conditions, without any power whatever to commit this Government or to represent it in any diplomatic capacity. You are directed to lend him such assistance and cooperation as he may require.