IN PERSIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14141, 11 June 1920, Page 5

IN PERSIA.

j.iSPREAD’GF 1 BOLSHEVISM. '; ,„ ... • _n_i< J j! by;-/NEWSPAPER j Prc-ss A.^<«jiationrrrl3lectric.lolcgßU>h—CopyriKlit > (|{cccivcd\-^riliay^,y.y. ( {vm.).. i ' LONDON, Thursday. \ The-. Times, commenting oirtlie Bolshevist occupation of Rcsht, infers that tlu*.:Ktufs 'intend to 'make a. ..-dctiiiitp, mover on'Teheran; f; A small British force at iteslit lias been witlrrduwvn lifty-two miles and placed .in a position at Menjjl., Pass, guarding the Teheran road. Other Bri- , fish troops . are.,scattered ineffectively in North Persia, and probably will be endangered. . The whole position is obscure owing to the lack of official information, *but apparently there-is nothing to prevent Persia falling an easy prey to the Bolsheviks. . I - > The Govei\unent is weak and honey- 1 eembed with intrigue,. ’ ....... Starosseles.ky;'.s..^. I (.'.Qssaft]k quartered in TfheriU 1 ,is now' anti-Bri-tish and deeply tainted with Bolshevism. Kutcliik Khan, the notorious freebooter and leader of the Persian revolutionaries, has become head of the provisional" Government formed at Iteslit. and.'wiH ..jiroUably /encourage the bed advance on Teheran. The British ,Government has still not defined its policy in Persia, though its interests are immediately threatened. .. .Simultaneously a dangerous -.position is developing in Asia Minor, owing to the increasing co-opera tnion between tile Turks and the Bolsheviks.