Telegram to S. A. Bank, December 25, 1918

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Lenin’s telegram is a reply to the following inquiry dated December 25, 1918, from S. A. Bank, Chairman of the Vyshny Volochok Uyezd Economic Council: “By order of the Council of Defence stores of army property have been sealed, an inventory is being urgently compiled. Owing to the spread of typhus in the town and uyezd, which is assuming menacing proportions, the Board of the Uyezd Economic Council has given permission for hospital property to be issued to the public health department. We ask for your sanction in assuming this great responsibility.” (Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50, p. 459.)

Bank, Chairman of the Uyezd Economic Council

Vyshny Volochok

Army stores are at the disposal of the military authorities. Hand over army stocks to the military department; unseal all stores; distribute property among the departments; carry out stocktaking without interrupting current work.

Lenin

Chairman, Council of Defence