They stayed at the house of the Bolshevik Bourdukoff, who gave them, so we were told, a great quantity of silver.

This group explained that they were former officers in the Imperial Guard.

They were Colonels Poletika, N.N.Philipoff and three of the latter's brothers.

They announced that they wanted to collect all the White officers and soldiers then in Mongolia and China and lead them to Urianhai to fight the Bolsheviki; but that first they wanted to wipe out Ungern and return Mongolia to China.

They called themselves the representatives of the Central Organization of the Whites in Russia.
The society of Russian officers in Uliassutai invited them to a meeting, examined their documents and interrogated them.