Telegram to Dmitry Avrov, Jēkabs Peterss, Vladimir Groman, October 28, 1919

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October 28, 1919

Avrov, Council of the Fortified Area

Peters, Automobile Registration and Distribution

Commission

Groman, special agent of the Council of Defence

Petrograd

Copy to Comrade Markov, Deputy People’s Commissar for

Railways, Moscow

Copy to Zinoviev, Smolny[1]

In a number of decisions, the Council of Defence has instructed its authorised agent, Groman, and the Petrograd Evacuation Commission, to dispatch daily from the Petrograd area 100 truck-loads of valuable freight, in accordance with the plan of the Evacuation Commission of the Council of Defence. You are directed to provide the Petrograd Evacuation Commission with the necessary means of transport by putting ten motor-lorries daily at its disposal as from this day, October 28. Report fulfilment.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of Workers’

and Peasants’ Defence

  1. This phrase is in Lenin’s handwriting.—Ed.