REDS' INVASION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 227, 19 June 1920, Page 7

REDS' INVASION

CAVALRY ADVANCING ON TEFL

OFFENSIVE AGAINST PERSIA

TO BE LAUNCHED FROM TABRIZ

By Telegraph-Press Associa.tion--OoprrleJit . Simlai June 17. Disquieting news has reached lulia from the Caucasus. In addition to the Bolshevik invasion of Persia, large numbers of Bolshevik cavalry Jiave advanced from Baku, and aje going to Tiflis. Communications with Tiflis ore cut off. Heports from there are conflicting and it is ..uncertain whether ' tho Bplshevik trcops have.reached the town or not. A report is persistent fchnfc : there has been a revolution at Tiflis, and that a proBolsihevik Government is now established.

Tho Bplshevik forcca which Jately were engaged in lighting Denikin- ore being coj.ected 'and .near Rostov, and it is intended to move them by rail to Baku, thence by .road .to Tabriz, from where, an offensive against Persia will be launched.- ; All' tile small' British detachments in Northern Persia, are being collected'at Kasurn,, which covers Teheran, and British reinforcements frcra Mesopotamia are journeying- to Ka«urn, where arrangements are being made-to create a defensive : position,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn..' SOVIET'S ASSURMS TO PERSIA NOT IN ACCORD WITH LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. London, ,Tune 10. Princo Firouz explained to the Council of the League of Notions tho nature of the communications which had passed between Pereia and' Soviet Russia. It was shown that Persia had formally pro', tested against the landing of Bolshevik troops. Tohiteherin (Foreign Minister) replied in friendly terms, and added that orders had been given for a withdrawal. In view of subsequent cu-nts, Prince . Firc-uz again telegraphed on May 12to Tchitclierin, pointing out that tho latest developments in Russia did not coincide with the Soviet's .assurances, and adding dhat unless matters were put right it would be impossible for. Persia to enter into,any friendly negotiations with the Soviet.—Reuter.