ATTITUDE OF SOVIET.
PROFESSED AIM FOR PEACE. KEMAL URGED TO RESIST. Times. LONDON. Oct. 1. The Soviet Foreign Commissary, M. Litvinoff. declared, in an interview, that the Soviet was anxious to avert war in the Near East, and would use its influence to that end, but a conflict could be averted only if Russia and the Black Sea States were allowed to participate in the peace settlement. Complete solidarity on this poinfc existed between Moscow, Kharkoff, and Angora. The Soviet Military Council was carry!ng out plans for military co-operation with Kemal, and details were being hurriedly worked out. The entire second division of the Don Basin had arrived in Tiflis; the fifth cavalry division from Minsk, the twentyfourth division from Nijni Novgorod, and the seventeenth division from Kursk were hurriedly moving to the Caucasus, where Kameneff and Lebedeff were preparing to transport the troop* to the East. The Moscow Government on September 25 instructed its Angora representative to bring pressure •upon Kemal to prevent him giving in to the British demands, and also promising him military and financial assistance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18211, 3 October 1922, Page 7
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179ATTITUDE OF SOVIET. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18211, 3 October 1922, Page 7
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