861.00/4847: Telegram
The Minister in China (Reinsch) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received July 14, 1919, 12:45 p.m.]
Following from [Harris at] Omsk.
[“]319, July 11, 4 p.m. Situation at front. Since July 8th Ekaterinburg being officially evacuated. Plan of Russian Army is to withdraw behind Tiumen. Have advised American Red Cross to evacuate Cheliabinsk and Tiumen. Russian Red Cross evacuating all patients from Ekaterinburg to Omsk, Kolchak has returned from front. Have not yet interviewed him. Gaida’s services with Siberian Army terminated on 8th. Bolsheviki apparently using Hindenburg tactics of concentrating all available forces on Kolchak’s front with object of taking Ekaterinburg and Cheliabinsk thus occupying whole of Urals and farming and industrial districts. Thereafter Bolsheviki may throw bulk of forces against Denekine or continue to Omsk. Harris.”