861.20/489: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, September
16, 1939—1 a.m.
[Received 1:50 a.m.]
[Received 1:50 a.m.]
547. Large troop movements to the Leningrad area are said to have taken place during the past 2 days. For 10 hours last night tanks [Page 782] and heavy artillery passing a given point on the outskirts of Moscow were reported as moving northwest and west.
Steinhardt