Moscow, Sept. 13.
The Soviet Commis for Foreign Affairs ina communique tonly denies the seriousness of the situation in Georgia, which, it says, ly greatly exaggerated in the for: eign press at the instigation of Menshevik refugees from Georgia in order to dixeredit the Soviet abroad and to nullify the Anglo-Soviet negotiation.—Reuter.
London, Sept. 16. patch states tha Special Georgian Delegation at eva reports that the ant! Volshevist rising is now general the Caucasus," An" important funnel at Surya, "on the.
atom Tine, has been blown up. The Dolshevist troops are retreating. in disorder. A" provisional Georgian Government has been established Kutais, and general. niobilization has been decreed. The movement is regarded heve us being mare than A mere rising, canglered a var of independence" on the Paris states that it is believed t troops command only the country around Batum and their only hope of re~ vceupying the interior wou'd be to land veinforcoments from Batum rom the mountainous agi it is believed that the troops are not properly equipped for such an undertaking. The Georgians, by blowing up the Souran tunnel, cut the only. railway giving access to the interior from Batum.
A Berlin message to the Georgian Legation states that three notorious Chinese, Li, have been sent. to Batum "with unlimned powers to suppress. the evelt in "the most The Soviet Embassy in London declares that the Georgian repot of the revolution in Trans-Caueasia Pre absolutely untrue. 'The Caueasus generally fs quiet. All that happened was a series of raids on small Towns in East Georgia on August 29 by small bands of brigands led by possessed ables or Tsarist _of-fisers, prepared by. the so-called Georgian' Independence "Committee imposed of ex-nobles, and financed rom abroad. The bands were every where liquidated "by local forces thin 8 houra' the peasants ant Iaders of which issued manifesto Wworkers opposed the adventure, the
September 4 calling upon their supporters to lay down -arma—Reuter.
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