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The Consul General at Irkutsk (Harris), temporarily at Vladivostok, to the Acting Secretary of State

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12. The Czechs have signed an armistice with Bolsheviki at Irkutsk which contains following definite clauses. This armistice [Page 565] has been confirmed by General Checkeck [Čeček?] in Vladivostok. Clause 5 states that the Czechs are not to interfere with the orders of the Soviet government in reference to all the arrested members of the Koichak government. Clause 6 states that the gold funds which belonged to the Russian Soviet Federal Republic under no circumstances be transferred to the east, that they must be left in Irkutsk and guarded by a mixed guard of Czech and Russian troops, and must be transmitted to the Irkutsk regiment when the last Czech regiment shall leave Irkutsk. Clause 7 states that the Czech troops take upon themselves the obligation to remain neutral as concerns all detachments of troops of the former Koichak government which are acting against the Soviet government and must give them no assistance whatever.

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Harris