THE NEAR EAST
SOVIET BLACK SEA FLEET. LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. Riga, Sept. 30. The Soviet’s naval and military manoeuvres at Odessa, which lasted a whole week, culminated in aerial gas attacks. The warships repeatedly manoeuvred off the Rumanian coast, causing disquiet among the Rumanian people, whereupon Moscow politicians launched several canards referring to alleged Anglo-Rumanian co-operation against the Soviet, particularly the construction of a British base at Constantza (Kustenji) to anble attacks to be made on Soviet ports.—(A. and N.Z.) AMERICANS ARRESTED. Constantinople, Sept. 30. The Bolsheviks arrested a number of American relief workers in Erivan on a charge of teaching religion to Armenian children.—(A. and N.Z.) INSURRECTIONIN~CASPIAN SEA. Geneva, Sept. 30, The Georgian Press Bureau declares that a rising in Azerbaijan, begun in August, continues, and that the insurgents defeated the Bolsheviks, who lost a field gun and several machineguns. The insurgents occupied Churuz, which they are still holding. They are also maintaining other positions despite bombardment by the Soviet’s Caspian Sea fleet. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 October 1927, Page 8
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