ABSTRACT
In North Russia, the first Relief brigade had now reached Archangel, and the second was on its way. But instead of simply replacing the tired British troops, as the House of Commons and British public had been led to understand, Churchill, with the backing of the General Staff, was planning to use them to break through to the Siberian troops advancing west from Perm, so that Admiral Kolchak could then base himself on Archangel, and not have to rely on the ramshackle Siberian railway.
