File No. 861.00/1656
The Minister in China (Reinsch) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 25, 10.18 a.m.]
Your April 12, 4 p.m.1 Information seems correct with the following modifications: (2) Large stocks of grain in western Siberia but farmers not willing to sell except in exchange for needed merchandise; (3) about eight hundred armed Hungarian prisoners have come to Irkutsk from Omsk; (4) no concentration of prisoners of war at Irkutsk could be verified, armed prisoners in Irkutsk district are all Bolshevik; (5) bridges between Manchouli and Chita believed to be mined for destruction should Semenov advance; (6) unknown, but German authorities apparently alarmed at spread of Bolshevik allegiance among prisoners.