Moscow, Apr. 10.
The Rosta Agency states that the Trans-Caucasian Government have arrested a number of officials of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republi including the People's Commissari for Internal Affairs, Agricultut and Finance, on charges of abus. of authority and incompetence. The arrested men mostly are rich ex-Tsarist officials.
The Commissar for Internal Affairs, M. Babaev, is accused of appropriating 15,000 roubles belonging to the State. Some of the others are said to have supported the Turkish anti-Soviet party of
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