REVOLT IN GEORGIA

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 64, 12 September 1924, Page 7

REVOLT IN GEORGIA

REMINDER OF LEAGUE'S FUNCTION

TALK OF PEACE, WITH BLOOD

FLOWING,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIQHT.) (REUTERS TELRatUM.) I (Received 12th September, 10.30 a.m.) GENEVA, 11th September. The Assembly of tho League of Nations has referred to the Agenda Committee a joint resolution, in tho name of the British, French, and Belgian delegates, inviting the Council of tho League to watch attentively the ovonts in Georgia, and to soizo an opportunity to enable the country to return to a state of peace. M. Boncbur (France), on behalf of the three delegations, said that .in the face of tho bloodshed in Georgia, it seemed desirable for tho Assembly to make a gesture against which no State could'take umbrage. "We have heard talk of peace," ho said, "yet blood is flowing." He mentioned tliat%before they left Geneva, Mr. Mac Donald and M. Herriot has received an appeal from Georgia.

The State of Georgia is in Transcaucasia, between the Black and Caspian Seas, and its capital is Tiflis. The population is^about 2£ millions.. When the Soviet regime was established in Russia, the Georgians, Tartars, and Armenians reformed the Transcaucosian Republic, which refused to recognise the Soviet. In 1918 Georgia became a separate State, which was duly reocgnised by the Allies in 1921. In that year a revolution occurred, and a Soviet Government was set up, so that the State is now called the "Georgian Socialist Soviet Republic." During the recent weeks there has been in progress a counter-revolution, and the insucents appear to have gained a considerable extent of control. Much fighting has oaken place. ' ■