File No. 861.00/1100
The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 16, 1.15 a.m.]
1504. The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs informs me that on account of the scarcity of food on the Åland Islands and the [Page 752] probable consequences arising out of such a scarcity between the armed Russian soldiers and the islanders, his government has requested Vorovski, the Bolshevik representative at Stockholm, to proceed to the Aland Islands for the purpose, of inducing the Russian soldiers to leave the islands. In the event of a satisfactory arrangement, the Swedish Government will permit the necessary transports to take aware the Russian soldiers.