861.00/7300: Telegram
The Consul at Harbin ( Jenkins ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:54 p.m.]
Semenoff signed an agreement on August 21 with representatives Vladivostok government providing for unification of the two governments under a national assembly. Semenoff surrenders all power except Ataman of Cossacks and commander of troops in Trans-Baikal. He has issued proclamation calling upon all Russians to urge foreign intervention for good of great Russia and says that the people alone have the right to govern and must not submit to dictation of Bolsheviki, Monarchists, or former servants of the Czar. It is too early yet to predict how agreement will work in practice. The opinion local press divided as to the outcome Semenoff’s agreement.