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PREPARING SPRING OFFENSIVE. INVASION OF POLAND EXPECTED. (Australian and X.Z. Cable Assn.) Received February 2:(. 0 a.m. PARIS, February 22. Count Tolsky, writing In the Journal, s-nys that undoubtedly tlie Bolshevik? ire preparing a spring offensive. Seven hundred thousand troops are massed, mostly mi tlie Polish frontier, and are jxpeeted shortly to invade Poland and possibly Roumania. The Soviet has iH-en compelled 1" take the offensive, as il could not live much longer without war. ADVANCE ON TIFLIS. REDS WITHIN EIGHT MILE 3. Heceivcd February 23, 1.15 a.m. LONDON, February 22. Advices Cm in Constantinople state !>al news from Georgia is >, but t is known that the Soviet troops are vithin eight miles of Ti/lis, with which olographic communication is intcr■upted. The Georgian Legion denies the report oi' the 'all <>f the town. Tin' first boat load of Georgian •cfugoes arrived. The British cruiser Cardiff, comnaii'leil by Rear-Admiral Tyrwhitt, is standing by Batoum.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14598, 23 February 1921, Page 5
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