861.00/5801: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Tenney) to the Secretary of State
Peking, December 3,
1919.
[Received 9:32 a.m.]
[Received 9:32 a.m.]
From [Harris at] Irkutsk.
492, December 2, 3 p.m. Vice Consul Ray reports from Novo Nikolaievsk that he is evacuating. Barabinsk now in hands of Bolsheviki. General evacuation of Novo Nikolaievsk begun.
Vice Consul Dille reports from Taiga that General Pepelaiev intends making stand Krasnoyarsk. Many soldiers in Taiga from front and in bad condition for want of food. Typhus very bad there and getting worse. Czechs leave that whole neighborhood with all forces in ten days. Harris.
Tenney