861.00/6221: Telegram
The Consul at Harbin (Jenkins) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:25 p.m.]
Following from Harris, Chita:
“January 22, 2 p.m. Am leaving tonight for Harbin. Have instructed Colonel McCroskey together with Vice Consul Thomas to remain for the present in Chita and evacuate with Czechs at later date.
Am advised, on good authority, that Koichak is now prisoner of so called Political Center in Irkutsk and that this party is affiliating with the Bolsheviki, who are calling meeting on January 25 to establish soviet consisting of soldiers, workmen, and peasant deputies.
[Page 532]It is still very uncertain what will be the ultimate end of both Kolchak and the gold. Later reports indicate that part of Polish Army voluntarily surrendered and are now fighting with Bolsheviki.”