File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎453v] (554/1080)

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Military Preparations in Bessarabia.
We are informed from Bukharest that the transfer of troops to the
Bessarabian frontier continues. King Ferdinand is shortly to visit the frontier
districts. The Bumanian Staff states that a disclosure of conspiracies in ^
Bessarabia is imminent.
Tee Seizure oe a Factory An East India Company trading post. by Workmen.
The employes in some steelworks in Ireland have been on strike for four
weeks. They have now seized the works and are running them themselves.
They have organized armed detachments for defence against attacks by
capitalists.
150,000 on strike in France.
Artillery and cavalry have arrived for fighting strikers. The numbers of
the latter approximate to 150,uOO. They are maintaining a determined
attitude and there are no strike breakers.
The paper publishes a local order summoning all citizens of Askhabad,
born in the years 1905-4-3-2, to present themselves with their documents for
registration in accordance with a recently issued instruction by the General
Staff of the Turkfront,
“ Izvestia” published at Tashkent, September 20th, 1921.
A Campaign op Lies and Proyocativeness.
They are Conspiring.
Odessa, 16th September. —The “Novoe Slovo” informs us from Bukharest
that the Finnish ambassador to Bumania has departed for Helsingfors in order
peisonally to inform his Government on the course of conversations with
reference to an alliance of Finland with the Bumano-Polish alliance.
The Bumanian representative in Helsingfors has received an order to sign
the protocol according to which Finland joins herself to the Bumano-Polish
alliance. Information exists that the Bumanian ambassador is conducting
similar conversations with Latvia and Esthonia.
Stockholm. 15th September. —We are informed from Warsaw that a delega
tion from the Finnish General Staff is now in Poland and is carrving on a
discussion with the Polish General Staff. °
Odessa, 16th September.—In Bessarabia they are collecting up to a million
Bussian refugees who will conduct an intensive Bussophil and monarchical
propagandum.
^sfltMJ^Huring the last few days a series of communications on the
a acks by Bolshevik bands on Bessarabia has appeared in the Bumanian
press. However, the reactionary Bumanian senator, Dragomirski. unwittingly
reveals the he m a letter published in the paper “ Adeverul. ” Dragomirski
writes that the Bumanian Government is not informed of the true nature of
events in Bessarabia. The attacks by banditti on that country are conducted
by bands of those soldiers of Wrangel whose transfer the Bumanian Govern
ment procured. blow these soldiers of Wrangel form bands, terrorize the
people, and seize property.
« un P rece ^^ te( i reaction reigns in Bessarabia which is introducing
anarchy throughout the whole fabric of the administration.