Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/1753

The Minister in China (Reinsch) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Peking, May 7, 1918, 3 p.m.
[Received May 7, 2.50 p.m.]

Your May 1, 5 p.m. My telegrams April 25, 5 p.m.,2 April 27, 1 p.m.,3 April 30, 2 p.m.,4 give the information available. The movement, [Page 155] avowedly administrative, is believed to be primarily political and to aim at constituting a government for Siberia with the same personnel after military success achieved with assistance from Allies or Japanese alone.

Reinsch
  1. Ante, p. 137.↩
  2. Ante, p. 140.↩
  3. Ante, p. 147.↩