WAR IN CAUCASIA.
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B/ Telegraph— Trwws Amiooiatinc—Copyright. Renter's Telegrams. LONDON, February 22. Advices from Constantinople -state that news from Georgia is scanty, but
st is known that Soviet troops are wit! in eight miles of Tiflis, with whic
telegraphic communication is interrupted. The Georgian legation denies a report of the fall of the town. The iirst boatload of Georgian refugees has arrived on tho British cruiser Cardiff. Rear-Admiral Tyrwhitt is standing by Batoum.
( A cable message published yesterday stated:—lt appears that the Soviet Governments in Armenia and Azerbaijan have combined to crush the republic of Georgia, which hitherto lias resented the attempt in Bolshevism it. Con-
stantinople reports state that an Ar menian attack on the Georgians in th<
south, was followed by an Azerbaijanian attack in the oast. Several divisions- with cavalry, are advancing on Tiflis, and the Georgian Government has ordered the evacuation of the city. The British and French Missions and foreign communities have already departed.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16359, 23 February 1921, Page 4
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