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Extract from the “ Izvestiay 55 Tashkent, dated 1st February 1921.
In the House of Commons, Lloyd George stated that in regard to the
question of the Erst, it is very desirable that English and Constantinople
Governments, should conclude an agreement. England can only conduct #
official negotiations with Constantinople and cannot enter into relations with
Kemal, although the latter holds three-quarters of Angora. England does not
reckon with small success of any other groups and onlyreckons wdth the right
faction. Lloyd George proposes that Serbian agreement should not be re*
examined.
Extract from the (t Izvestia, ” Tashkent, dated 1st February 1921.
1. Situation of the Red Army on the Persian front is favourable. The
army is not advancing, it is awaiting the development of the revolutionary
movement in Persia. The English force opposing us is very small. Although
in Mesopotamia and Northern Persia there are up to 100,000 English troops,
they cannct be sent away from the regions they occupy owing to the risings
against the English.
2. A party has been formed in Tehran for liberating Persia from the
English. The second group of this party is in Tabriz. The heir to the throne
is head of this party. The party demands the withdrawal of the English and
is opposed to concessions being granted to them. In connection with this
there are rumours that the English are being withdrawn from the Kasvin
front.
The Cf Bosta ” of 30th January. —Continues to direct the attention of its
readers to English affairs which it places in a light favourable to the peculiar spirit
of Bolshevism. In a note entitled “unemployment abroad ” it dilates on the
closing of factories and mills and the ejectment of workers on to the streets.
Despite the endeavour to do everything possible to fight the question of
unemployment, commissions are at work for the augmentation of the land and
sea forces and the robbery of German possessions. The English Government
can think of nothing better than the raising of the pay of Lloyd George.
Under the title “The Labour movement in India ” it relates the occur
rence of a vast strike movement in Bombay due to which upwards of 30
ships, loaded with cargo, are unable to sail. In Calcutta the workers in
the salt industry are on strike while in Madras the textile operatives who are
on strike are preventing the strike-breakers from going to work. The troops
were called out, in consequence of which 16 workers were killed and 23
wounded.
On the following day ceremonious funerals of the fallen victims took
place m which the whole of the proletariat of Madras took part. Owing to the
failure of the monsoon there has been severe famine in the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
following which there have been several agrarian insurrections. On the out
skirts of Singapore the possessions of several landowners have been burnt bv
peasants.
The same edition states that along the whole line of the Baghdad railway
there are armed insurrections of the Arabs against the English and that in
several places detachments of our troops have surrendered to the enemy,
0 ether with the whole of their arms. In its impression of the 2nd February
ww F % b fn aStS ° f thG WOn AT S acco f Polled by the Soviet Government in the
annroacl es 47s e bdrn S1< f n ° t e ? a * saying that the quantity raised
approaches 473 billion tons,, exceeuing the pre-war supply by 200 per cent.
This is either an exaggeration of the grossest type or the authority
L 01 fi the lnf r matl0n . can have of the meaning of “ billion l
Transited to figures the quantity quoted is 473, 000*000,000,000 tons.
Extract from the “ Fosta, ” Samarkand, dated 2nd February 1921.
Ger J a h n had U wSh a n"?,? hfliCal Der n artmeut has cotne to an agreement mth
ropean professors to exchange educational advantages