MEMORANDUM TO THE CIIK ADMINISTRATION FOR FORWARDING
11EETR0S0VETU**
September 1919
I spoke with Tsereteli an hour ago, and he informed me that:
1) he is taking urgent measures;
2) he has received a number of telegrams regarding the loading of grain and the commencement of shipments to Petrograd from Ufa, Vyatka, and other cities; and
3) he has already transmitted these telegrams via telegraph to Petrograd.
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The telegram was addressed to provincial executive committees and provincial forestry committees in Pskov, Novgorod, Cherepovets, Petrozavodsk, Vologda, Veliky Ustyug,
Vyatka, Perm, Tver, Rybinsk, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Kazan, Simbirsk, Samara, Saratov,
with copies sent to the Petrograd District Forestry Committee.
* * The memorandum serves as a reply
to the request from the Petrograd Soviet for food assistance.