861.00/7430: Telegram
The Consul at Harbin (Jenkins) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:46 p.m.]
Local newspapers report detachment Semenoff troops under Baron Ungern70 moving toward Verkhnieudinsk frontier which may lead to resumption fighting with Bolshevik forces in Trans-Baikal. Should this occur regular Soviet troops may be sent into north from Irkutsk.
Indications are that Semenoff is not carrying out in good faith his promise to surrender civil control to Zemstvo government. In my opinion radical and other elements opposed to Semenoff will attempt to remove him by military force in the near future …
- Baron Ungern Sternberg, Russian general in charge of White Russian forces in Mongolia.↩