Office of the Historian

760i.61/17: Telegram

The Commissioner at Riga (Young) to the Secretary of State

Riga, August 9, 1920—7 p.m.
[Received August 10—3:20 a.m.]

100. Esthonia Minister of Foreign Affairs expects to receive within next few days demand from Moscow that Esthonia immediately join federated Soviet Russia. Esthonia will probably refuse and in that event armed conflict will doubtless follow. Many arrests Bolshevik sympathizers Reval yesterday.

British are preparing plans for evacuation if necessary of their subjects from Baltic Provinces.

Young