File No. 861.00/2428a
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul at Archangel (Cole)
Convey following message to American Ambassador by hand if no other sure and confidential means of communication exists:
Nothing from you since July 11. Latest message from Moscow reporting your movements is dated July 25, sent via wireless to Paris. Department has noted your reply July 15 to request that Allied missions remove to Moscow. For your information the Red Cross is sending some 4,000 tons of medicines and foodstuffs to Archangel next month. This Government has also consented to send a small force of American troops to Murmansk but will not take part in any expedition into Russia from that port. Spare no effort to keep Department advised of your movements. Have cabled you fully and frequently but assume messages have been largely interrupted.