# NOTE TO V. N. PODBEL'SKII¹
[22 January 1919]

To Podbel'skii: why in 3 copies?
in 3 copies?
Measures against abuses of the t e l e g r a p h.

Written on a telegram from P. A. Kobozev, member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, reporting on the beginning of an offensive by troops of the 1st Army of the Eastern Front.

The telegram was addressed to V. I. Lenin at 3 addresses: the Party Central Committee, the Council of People's Commissars, the Council of Defense, and also at 13 other addresses: the Supreme Council of the National Economy, Sverdlov, Krasin, Stalin, the authorized representative of the Turkestan representations, and others.

V. N. Podbel'skii — People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR.