Paris Peace Conference 184.01602/30½: Telegram
Admiral Bristol to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
[Received in Paris April 22, 4:50 p.m.]
172. For Major Tyler [from Riggs]:
“Number 14. Arrived Ekaterinodar with Whitehouse this morning. Left Odessa March 31st for Sebastopol. Arrived Yalta April 2nd. After this date commercial ships stopped running. In the meantime Bolsheviks attacked in Perekop region April 6 and 7. Panic in Yalta. British sent dreadnought Marlborough, destroyers and merchantmen to evacuate Imperial family and bourgeois refugees. We arrived Novorossiisk on refugee ship yesterday. Have had no report from Odessa party but am informed that they were evacuated to Constantinople. I shall use them either here or in the Caucasus. I intend to spend 10 days here. Am sending this to Constantinople by courier. Captain Berry has sent through Admiral Bristol 10 telegrams, including eight situation reports. Please acknowledge. Riggs.”
Received in Constantinople April 21.