TELEGRAM TO THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
Nikitovka
January 30 (February 12), 1918
Due to a shortage of gasoline, the mines are in danger of shutting down; it will become impossible to pump out the water. We earnestly request that, if there is even the slightest military capacity available, all available gasoline be directed to the mines,
under the control of the Kharkiv Regional Council of People’s Economy, Sumskaya 27.
Lenin