861.00/5036: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Morris), temporarily at, Omsk, to the Secretary of State
Omsk, August 13,
1919, 4 p.m.
[Received August 14, 6:51 p.m.]
[Received August 14, 6:51 p.m.]
Semenoff was promoted to a full generalship before the receipt of your August 5, 5 p.m. Kolchak is compelled to rely more and more on Cossack support in the present crisis because he has no other support left. The Siberian Cossacks whose communal lands lie in the Omsk district are being mobilized by Ivanoff-Rinoff; they are not disposed to fight vigorously for the Kolchak government, but in the event of its fall will take over the local administration and defend their landed and other privileges from Bolshevik aggression.
Morris