The Avalon Project at Yale Law School

Foreign Relations of the United States : 1918
The Conclusion of the Peace of Brest Litovsk
The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State

File No. 763.72/8929

The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State

[telegram]

PETROGRAD, February 18, 1918.

[Received February 21, 4 p. m.]

2385. Germany notifies that armistice terminate noon to-day when state of war be resumed, to which reply made that same incredible because seven days' notice required. Later, just heard Germans have taken Revel and Dvinsk.

FRANCIS