861.00/7240: Telegram

The Consul at Harbin ( Jenkins ) to the Secretary of State

Several trains Japanese artillery and cavalry from Trans-Baikal have passed Harbin for Vladivostok many of them actually en route. Evacuation Trans-Baikal now seems certain. Semenoff [Page 541] forces also reported to be evacuating Chita toward Manchurian frontier and it is expected that Zemstvo government will shortly be formed in Chita. Just informed [by] Semenoff representative that Semenoff and staff leaving for Dauria Station to-day where headquarters will be established for the present. Newspapers continue report that many Semenoff officials are passing through Harbin for Grodekovo, a Cossack town near Vladivostok.

Jenkins