Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume II

File No. 763.72/11342b

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (MacMurray)

[Telegram]

Washington, September 5, 1918, 5 p.m.

For immediate transmission to Irkutsk:

Please cable Department the following:

(1) The number of Russian military forces cooperating with the Czechs west of Irkutsk, including European Russia;

(2) Their organization and to what extent it is developed;

(3) Their supplies, what they are and how obtained;

(4) Their morale;

(5) Whether they are subject to proper military discipline;

(6) Whether they are representative of the real sentiment of the Siberian people;

(7) Who are their leaders.

Cable preliminary report at once.

Lansing