NO DESIGNS ON STRAITS.
Trotsky Denies Earlier Reports. SOVIET FRIENDLY TO TURKEY. By oable —Press Association Copyright. MOSCOW, June Jo. Trotsky, in a speech, declared tlnii tbe reports of ins alleged speecii at Podiosk favouring, a Russian invasion of Bessarabia as a step towards the seizure of Constantinople and the Straits was absolutely untrue. On the contrary, lie declared, the conquest of the Straits was radically opposed to the policy ot the Soviet which helped Turkey to regain possession of Constantinople, and to assuic freedom for Nationalists. . [According to a telegram from \\ arsaw, Trotsky, in a speech at Podiosk early this month, declared that the Soviet needed the Straits and. Constantinople, therefore Bessarabia wa* vital to them as a first step towards Constantinople. If the Rumanians and Poles tried to bar the way the feormt would fight them.]
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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138NO DESIGNS ON STRAITS. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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