TELEGRAM TO G. E. ZINOVIEV AND BOBROV.
Petrograd. Smolny. To Zinoviev and Bobrov.1
[Mid-June 1918]2
I authorize the dispatch. I urgently request that you continue with all your strength to send both detachments and agitators. [462]
Lenin. *

1 Bobrov was the authorized representative of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply in Petrograd.
2 The date is established by document 23489 (arch. I. L.), which is dated June 14, 1918 and whose outgoing number is "455"; from this it is clear that the telegram numbered "462" could not have been sent later than 1-2 days after. The content of the telegrams is also identical.