SOVIET RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 206, 26 May 1920, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA

OBJECT OF ENZELLI ATTACK

RECOVERY OF INTERNED SHIPS

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. May ?6, 0.5 a.m.) Delhi, May 24. Tho seizure <f Baku proved the prelude to a renewal of Bolshevik activities in the Caspian area. Tho object of the attack on Enzelli ou May 18 was the recovery of some ships of tho Russian volunteer army which had mado their way thither from Baku and been interned. The Soviet commander demanded tho ships, declaring that ho had no designs against tho British, and promised to retire from Enzelli when ho had achieved his purpose. In order to avoid a collision tho British forces wero withdrawn pending negotiations between the British and tho Soviet commander. All was quiet in licsht and Enzelli on May 20, but further activity was reported in the direction of Astara, a Caspian Sea port on the Persian frontier, a hundred miles north of Enzelli. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INDIAN ARMY'TO ADVANCE ON BAKU.

London, May 24. The British arc- landing an Indian army at Batum for an advance on Baku. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PERSIAN RlissloTTO MOSCOW London, May 24. A wireless message from 'Moscow states that a Persia.i diplomatic mission is going to Moscow.—United Service JAFANESeIn" SIBERIA FAR EAST TOO UNSETTLED FOR WITHDRAWAL. (Rec. May 25, 7.45 p.m.') Tokio, May 24. The Imperial address to the Diet stated that tho situation- in the Far East was still too unsettled to permit of the withdrawal of the Japaneso troops from Siberia—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.