860c.014/86: Telegram
The Chargé in Latvia (Packer) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:20 p.m.]
301. Foreign Office official informs me that (1) Lithuanians actually asked Soviet Government for Vilna and requested that Oszmiana be included in territory ceded [by] Soviet, rejection of latter presumably being because of important leather and lumber industries situated there; (2) that Latvian Consul Vilna who has just been here stated that during Soviet occupation of city there was extensive evacuation to Soviet Union of metal materials, doors and frames, window frames, et cetera, and that numbers of Polish officers and landlords were evacuated.