GEORGIA ATTACKED

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 5

GEORGIA ATTACKED

BY ARMENIA AND_AZERBAIJAN BOLSHEVISING EFFORTS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. London, February 19. If, appears that the Soviet Governments in Armenia and Azerbaijan have combined to crush the Republic of Georgia, which hitherto has resented attempts to Bolshevise it. Constantinople reports an Armenian attack on the Georgians in the south, followed by an Azerbaijanian attack in the east, several divisions with cavalry advancing to Tiflis. The Georgian Goveminent has ordered the evacuation ot the city. The British and French Missions and foreign communities already have departed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIAN NAVAL MUTINY OBJECTION TO SOVIET’S PAYMENT IN KIND. Helsingfors, February 20. Advices from Batoum report a naval mutiny at Petrovsk, in the Caspian, owing to the Soviet’s decree to pay sailors and workmen in kind. instead ot money. Seven hundred strikers were deported for refusing to work. A demand for their release led to a. mutiny bv ail the crews on the warships, lim local 1 Soviet seized the president and two members and murdered them, lhe mutineers blew up most cf the in port or put to sea aboard the remaining craft.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SEIZURE OF VALUABLES DECREED TO PAY FOR IMPORTS TO RUSSIA. Copenhagen, February 20. T'he Soviet has decreed ’.he seizure ot valuables in museums throughout Russia to provide money to pay for imports. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ;