NOTE VIA DIRECT WIRE  
TO THE CHAIRMEN OF THE GUBERNIYA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND VOLGOPROD,  
THE GUBERNIYA FOOD COMMISSAR, THE GUBERNIYA MILITARY COMMISSAR  
Nizhny Novgorod  
July 9, 1919  

The loading of bread in Nizhny for Moscow is delayed due to the lack of loading equipment. Given the extremely dire food situation in Moscow, it is absolutely imperative to take measures and exert all efforts to ensure the immediate loading and dispatch to Moscow of the bread allocated by the People's Commissariat of Food. The military and civil authorities are ordered, without the slightest delay, to mobilize workers and soldiers for the immediate loading of bread. Report on execution by telegraph. For negligence or lack of effort—responsibility under martial law.  

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars  
Lenin  
People's Commissar of Food  
Tsyurupa