861.00/3631: Telegram
The Minister in China (Reinsch) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received January 14, 10:30 a.m.]
Following from [Harris at] Omsk.
“24. 13th. Admiral Kolchak [has] informed me today that the situation in the Orenburg district was serious owing to the Social Revolutionary and Bolshevik propaganda. General Dutov1 has informed him that many of the British [Cossack?] soldiers were refusing to fight. Kolchak further stated that the situation on the Perm front was very good and that arrangements are being made to despatch troops south to checkmate the operations of Bolsheviks at Ufa. The Semenoff situation continued serious owing to the fact that railway communications, especially as concerned supplies, were being constantly threatened. Harris.”
- Ataman of the Orenburg Cossacks.↩