Office of the Historian

861.00/4752: Circular Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis)59

Washington, June 28, 1919, 6 p.m.

Continued interference by Semenoff and his representatives with operation of Siberian railways, leads this Government to believe that instructions should be issued to Inter-Allied Committee and to Allied Military Commanders in Siberia that vigorous joint representations be made to Semenoff to discontinue promptly this interference.

Ascertain from the Government to which you are accredited whether it will instruct its representatives in above sense. You may say that this Government regards Semenoff’s interference as of special importance as indicating the necessity of limiting the use of military forces along the railways to safeguard the operation of the road and making effective the Inter-Allied plan to restore railway traffic. Answer promptly.

Repeat these instructions to Paris and Rome.

Phillips
  1. The same to the Ambassador in Japan with instruction to repeat to the Legation at Peking.↩