861.77/1150: Telegram
The President of the Technical Board (Stevens) to the Secretary of State
[Extract]
Harbin, October 20,
1919, 10 p.m.
[Received October 22, 12:06 p.m.]
[Received October 22, 12:06 p.m.]
Practically all original members of Service Corps including Emerson declare that they are done and will leave for the United States and ask to be relieved quickly. They all declare with truth they enlisted for the war and have served a year after close away [Page 535] from families and at pecuniary loss, that their efforts are useless under existing arrangement, their instructions and orders are in every way ignored by officials of the railways. …
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