TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN 
OF THE MILITARY-REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE 
OF THE DON REGION

Voronezh
Governmental. Confidential
February 16, 1918
I have received your telegram dated January 31 regarding the capture of Shakhtnaya and Kamenolomen’. I salute the successes of the Soviet troops. I am especially grateful for your report on the dispatch of 60 railcars of coal via Tsaritsyn. I earnestly request that you transmit by telegraph the train numbers carrying coal and grain, as well as the precise times and dates of departure. This is of utmost importance. Please send more grain. The letter from the Alekseev spy has not yet been received. Send it by the most reliable courier, having first made a photograph of it *.
Chairman of the Sovnarkom
Lenin
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