861.00/4763: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Wallace) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 11:52 p.m.]
963. Following from Constantinople as Commissioner’s number 261.
June 26, 5 p.m. Advices from Vice Consul Burri at Ekaterinodar indicate that Bolsheviks are leaving Crimea to escape being cut off [Page 765] from Kharkov and the north and that great confidence reigns in morale of Volunteer Army and British tanks, foreshadowing utter demoralization of Bolshevik forces. Among Volunteer forces feeling is now growing that any recognition of or guarantee to former parts of Russian Empire without sanction of their representative will not be binding on future Russia and intense emphasis is laid on a single Russian Government for all of former Russia except possibly Poland and Finland, whose independence is accepted in principle but questioned in boundary. Please [apparent omission]. Ravndal, American Commissioner.