September 23, 1919

The Field Staff is instructed to insert, at the first opportunity, the following appeal in a military communiqué to Comrade Yuryev, member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat for Food, in Yekaterinburg:

"Provisioning the workers restoring the bridge across the Kosva on the Lunyevka branch line, as well as the workers of the Kizel mines, and the forage for their horses is absolutely necessary for the prosecution of the war. Maximum energy is required, and an immediate reply by telegraph via the same channel concerning what has actually been done."

Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin