762.94/532: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 24—6:42 p.m.]
843. With reference to Berlin’s 1559 of April 23, 3 p.m.,84 I have learned from a reliable source that shipments from the Far East to Germany over the Trans-Siberian Railway are now moving westward regularly at the rate of 100 cars a day without further difficulties and that the German Embassy in Moscow is confident of a substantial increase in the volume of traffic in the near future. The mere fact that [Page 967] the impediments which existed to this movement prior to Matsuoka’s visit to Moscow have been removed would seem to justify the confidence expressed by members of the German Embassy.
Repeated to Berlin.
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