861.24/160: Telegram
The Vice Consul at Viborg (Imbrie) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 10:27 p.m.]
68. General Youdenitch, commander White forces now operating on Petrograd front, has addressed a communication to this consulate requesting that I communicate to the Government of the United [Page 692] States the urgent need of the White forces for every sort of military supply and munitions and requesting that the Government of the United States be urged to supply same on terms similar to those under which food is being consigned now for ultimate delivery into Russia.
The list of supplies and munitions needed includes artillery, both field and heavy, airplanes, machine guns, small arms, transport cars, field telephones and telegraph instruments, horses, intrenching tools, 1,500 meters of pontoon bridging, as well as clothing, shoes and personal equipment, the supplies and equipment to be sufficient for army of 100,000 men and later for double that number. The first consignment of the munitions and supplies are desired for delivery at the port of Reval.
There has been an understanding between General Youdenitch and the British by which the latter were to furnish the supplies and munitions above enumerated but the British to date have failed to make deliveries and there is but little indication that they will do so. Nevertheless, Youdenitch desires that his request to the United States Government be treated as confidential and that the British be not advised of same.
Request instructions as to what action I shall take in the premises and what if any answer I shall make to General Youdenitch.