123 T 71/142: Telegram
The Chargé in Denmark (Grant-Smith) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received April 1, 2:47 a.m.]
3825. Your 1443, February 21, 5 p.m. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs communicates the following received from Danish Red Cross representatives in Russia.
According to telegram received from Russian Commissioner Karasu Khan [Karakhan], all civilian and military Americans (among them Tredwell and Kalamatiano, Americans) Italians, Roumanians and Serbs now arrested in Russia will be liberated as soon as the Russian subjects now arrested at Blagoveshchensk [and] Vladivostok are liberated. All Americans, Italians, Roumanians and Serbs who might desire to leave Russia will be exchanged with the previously mentioned Russian subjects and will be able to cross the Russian frontier at the proper place simultaneously with the return to their own country of the Russian subjects. Information has likewise been received from the Red Cross representatives Satto and Doctor Martiny that the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Moscow has given orders to liberate Tredwell and to send him to Moscow.
Repeated Am[erican] Mission. 284.