January 11, 1919

Send to Chicherin: has it been used for publication?

# TELEGRAM

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Moscow, Metropol, to Chicherin, Copy to Inorosta

4/1 — 10 o'clock, 12 hours. Dvinsk

The newspaper of the Soldiers' Soviet of the German 10th Army publishes an excerpt from one of the Berlin newspapers in which is cited an order from the English Admiralty to the German fleet. Here it is: 1) all vessels under red flags must be sunk without warning, 2) vessels without officers are to be treated according to the laws of wartime, 3) upon capture of a naval rank engaged in Bolshevik propaganda, the entire crew of the given vessel is to be shot by sentence of a military-naval court. Gopner.

I await information and Chicherin's response.