Robert Lansing to Woodrow Wilson
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I have had copies made of the memorandum I sent you , regarding the different movements for self government in Siberia, and of the telegram from Peking, dated , and am sending them to you with a later telegram from the Consul at Harbin, dated . I have added this later telegram because it transmits a petition for support by the Allied Governments from the "Russian Far Eastern Committee", a political organization without party lines, which apparently constitutes a fourth Anti-Soviet movement. The Committee signifies its willingness to work for a coalition with members of the Tomsk movement, but looks to leadership to the Horvath faction; its members would seem to be local Bourgeois from Eastern Siberia and China.
For the moment the Horvath movement has taken the form of a re-organization of the Chinese Eastern Railway administration, in which the board of directors will be composed of Horvath's associates and supporters, together with two Chinese. While this measure is avowedly administrative, it is believed to be primarily political, and to aim at constituting a government for Siberia with the same personnel, following on military successes achieved with the assistance of the Allies or of Japan alone.Colonel Semenoff, who may now be considered practically as an outpost of the Horvath movement, is reported to be receiving additional munitions and supplies, including armored cars, from Japan. His immediate objective is Karymskaya, where the Amur Railway joins the Trans-Siberian.
Robert Lansing.
Enclosure:Memorandum and telegrams as above.
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