861.77/1144: Telegram
The President of the Technical Board (Stevens) to the Secretary of State
Harbin, October 19,
1919, 6 p.m.
[Received October 20, 8:30 p.m.]
[Received October 20, 8:30 p.m.]
I am officially informed that evacuation of all Czech and other Allied forces guarding railway Omsk to Taiga will begin October 20, 4 p.m. I have ordered all of our inspectors to leave that territory. Coincidently with such a movement all Czechs Omsk to Irkutsk will move to Trans-Baikal and Chinese Eastern territory as fast as possible and our inspectors will be withdrawn at the same time as no dependence can be placed upon Russians safeguarding life and property. Bolshevik will at once inaugurate their usual reign of terror.
Stevens