861.00/4954: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Irkutsk (Harris), temporarily at Omsk

For Morris.

Referring to your July 30, 5 p.m.44 President informed Mission at Paris August 8, 5 p.m.,45 in response to direct inquiry from Mr. Clemenceau that United States with utmost regret will be unable to [Page 413] furnish additional troops in Siberia to replace Czechs in guarding the railways.

Lansing
  1. Ante, p. 292.
  2. Ante, p. 295.