FIRE AND SWORD
MASSACRES IN GEORGIA
NO PITY SHOWN.
APPEAL FOR INTERVENTION.
«y cable —press association—copyright PARIS, Sept. 16. M. Jordania, President of Georgia, makes a moving appeal for English and French . intervention in the RussoGeorginn conflict in order to reach a pacific settlement. He says: “The Bolsheviks, reinforced from, the sea, are descending on Batoum, bloodily massacring old people, women and children, whose bodies are thickly strewn the railway. Houses are burning and neighbouring villages have been put to fire and ,sword. All the population able to bear arms have entered into the struggle. The most sanguinary phases of Georgian history pall before the unheard of barbarism now practised.’’ M, Jordania declares that the Bolsheviks are forcing Georgia to join the Soviet Federation, though each republic is supposed to be.able to leave freely when it desires to do so.
MOSCOW, Sept. 16. Parties of the cruellist members of the Cheka secret - police, including Chinese,. have set out for the Caucasus to suppress the Georgian revolt with the severest measures if necessary.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 September 1924, Page 5
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