Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1941, General, The Soviet Union, Volume I

740.0011 European War 1939/12316: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, June 21, 1941—12 a.m.
[Received June 21—10:09 a.m.]

1190. Lightner⁸⁵ reports from Vladivostok that while traveling from Krasnoyarsk to Chita his train met between 200 and 220 westbound trains averaging 25 cars each, of which 7 were loaded with troops and the remaining 18 with artillery, tanks, anti-aircraft searchlight, “knocked down” aircraft and miscellaneous army supplies and equipment. He noted no unusual movement west of Krasnoyarsk nor east of Chita.

Steinhardt

85. E. Allan Lightner, Jr., Third Secretary of Embassy in the Soviet Union.