ALARMING ACCOUNTS.
MENACE EXPANDING.
(Received 10.35 a.m.)
DELHI, June 17
Disquieting news has reached India from the Caucasus. In addition to the Bolshevik invasion of Persia, largo numbers of Bolshevik cavalry have advanced from Baku, going towards Tiflis. Communications with Titlis are cut off. Reports from there are conflicting. It is uncertain whether the Bolshevik troops have reached the town or not. The report is persistent that there has been a revolution in Tiflis and that a pro-Bolshevik Government is now established.
The Bolshevik forces lately engaged in fighting General Denikin are being collected and re-equipped near Rostovand. It is intended to move by rail to Baku, thence by road to Tabriz, whence an offensive against Persia will be launched.
All the small British detachments in Northern Persia are being collected at Kahurn, which covers Teheran, and British reinforcements trom Mesopotamia are journeying to Kahurn, where ar ramgements have been made to create a defensive position.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 18 June 1920, Page 5
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