861.00/3920
The British Chargé (Barclay) to the Acting Secretary of State
Memorandum
His Britannic Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires presents his compliments to the Acting Secretary of State and has the honour to inform him that a request has been made to His Majesty’s Government from the Bolshevik Government to the effect that a desire has been expressed by members of the Union of Chinese Workmen in Russia to return home and that about three hundred men, which constitutes the first party of Chinese, are shortly to start for Siberia through Samara and Ufa. The Union have requested that facilities to return should be granted to these men by the Government of Siberia and [Page 193] the Allied Governments. It is stated that Tchaninguy, the Chairman of the Moscow Committee of Chinese Workmen, is in a position to negotiate for the return of the workmen in question.
His Majesty’s Government propose, should the United States Government agree, to reply that they would be glad to afford all possible facilities, and they would therefore be glad to learn the views of the United States Government in the matter at an early date.