Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Russia

Paris Peace Conference 184.016/33: Telegram

Admiral Bristol³ to the Commission to Negotiate Peace

Constantinople, March 1, 1919—2:40 p.m.
[Received in Paris March 3, 3:20 a.m.]

21. “For Captain Royall Tyler⁴ [from Riggs].

Whole party arrived Constantinople. Expect to leave here in a few days. Owing to difficulties of transportation have sub-divided into three parties going direct to Odessa, Ekaterinodar and Tiflis. I am accompanying Odessa party and will visit the other two in turn. Lieut. Colonel E. F. Riggs, Chief of Mission.”

Bristol

3. Adm. Mark L. Bristol, commanding U. S. naval forces in Turkey, was appointed High Commissioner of the United States at Constantinople on Aug. 12, 1919.
4. Of the Secretariat of the Commission to Negotiate Peace.