Where Oil Caused War
MAGNATES FINANCED ANTISOVIET REBELLION. SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS EXPECTED. United Press Association —By Electri* Telegraph—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 12.30 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 6. The Daily News correspondent ifi Berlin says the most sensational political trial since the war is opening in Berlin to-day. Those implicated allegedly forged Russian Toh-ervonetz notes equivalent to the pound sterling with the object of ruining the Soviet currency. International petroleum magnates fighting the Soviet for the possession of tho Baku oilfields financed the counter-revolutionary movement.in Georgia where two leading Bavarian politicians are also believed to have contributed. Neither the industrialists nor the politicians were aware that extensive forgeries were simultaneously carried out in Munich in order to add to the Georgian funds. Tho Georgian patriot Carumidze is the chief accused.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7110, 7 January 1930, Page 6
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126Where Oil Caused War Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7110, 7 January 1930, Page 6
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