Trotzky's Further Denial of Speech Regarding Invasion of Bessarabia Moscow, June 16, MIN. Trotzky, in the course of a speech to-day, declared that the re~ ports of his" alleged speech at Podolsk in favour of a Russian invasion of Bessarabia as a step. towards the seizure of Constantinople and the Straits were absolutely untrue, On the contrary, he declared, the conquest of the Straits was radically opposed to the policy of the Soviet, who had helped Turkey to regain possession of Constantinople and to proclaim the autonomy of the Nationalists—Reuter.
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