TELEGRAM TO Kh. G. RAKOVSKY

5 July 1919

To Kiev, Sovnarkom, Rakovsky
Copy to Shlikhter

Hand to duty commissar
Out of all priority
Notify Moscow, Kremlin upon delivery
Direct wire note

In Sumy and the Sumy region there are large stocks of sugar. I request that you issue orders to all relevant bodies for the immediate and unconditional dispatch of sugar to the North. Any delay in shipping the sugar will be a crime. I request that you report on the progress of shipments to Tsyurupa daily, if possible.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin