Poole to Lansing on withdrawl of German military request and on SR activity


File No. 861.00/2366
[Telegram*]

Moscow, July 17, 1918, 7 p.m.
[Received July 24, 11: 32 a.m.]


716.

    Commissariat for Foreign Affairs officially informed Consulate General last evening that according to a telegram from its representative at Berlin, German request for admission Embassy guard to Moscow, reported in my No. 715, has been withdrawn and Germany will be satisfied with guard furnished by the Soviet government. The Soviet government will notify German Government immediately upon the receipt for any information giving ground to fear further attempts against German representatives.

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    To date thirteen well-known members of the Social Revolutionist Party have been shot but the most prominent, including instigators of murder of German Ambassador, still at large in hiding. Four of them have just been reelected to the Central Executive Committee of the party.

    The Social Revolutionist revolt has miscarried for the time being because the peasantry whom the party represents are an unwieldy mass and the party lacks adequete leadership. However reports from the provinces continue to reveal growing anti-Bolshevik work. The most serious uprising is still in progress at Yaroslavl.


Poole



* Sent via the Embassy in France; by wireless from Moscow to Paris




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