Please be so kind as to convey the following to Ilyich: "By telegram of 19/VIII, the People's Commissar of Finance of the Northern Region, Comrade Potyaev, ordered the head of the expedition, Pety, to halt the unloading of the train. Work has been suspended. Inform me whether his order, which countermands your directive of the 16th under No. 683, is to be carried out. Awaiting reply. A. Minkin."

This presumably refers to Lenin's telegram of August 16; the original has no outgoing number (see p. 207).