The following members of the Soviet Trade Delegation were arrested: the chief secretary of the Delegation, V. Augenblick, a Moscow barrister; Bruck, who was temporarily acting as president of the Delegation during Kudish's absence in London; Solotarev, an ex-colonel; Kovsky, Irukhly, ant? the representative of the Ukrainian Soviet Government, Filipitch. Nearly all Kussian firms, institutions, hotels, and boarding houses were visited and searched. In all, over 200 suspected Russians were arrested. One of the most prominent Soviet agents in Constantinople> Kusnetzoy, managed to escape, and is being sought by the Allied police.
These serious measures appear to be directly connected with the arrest made a few days previously of a number of Bolshevist agents, who arrived from Odessa on board the Greek steamer Kerkyra, and who ha@ brought with them a considerable amount of seditious propaganda literature in the Russian and Greek languages. The Bolshevist_ propaganda literature, printed in Greek, had a direct bearing on the events in Asia Minor, and consisted of appeals to the Greek troops to lay down their arms, to stop fighting the Kemalists and to go back ta Greece and overthrow the present regime, replacing it by a Soviet Government.
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A few days later another Russian" Bolshevist mission was arrested, and documents were discovered disclosing elaborate plans for a Communist rising to take place in Constantinople on the day the Kemalist troops entered Ismid, thus preparing the way for an immediate occupation of the Turkish capital by the Nationalists.
All the arrested Russian Bolshe-vis, together with a number oF their Turkish comrades and agents arrested in Stamboul have been transferred to a British transport. According to information from reliable sources the Allied authorities have now got hold of all the chief personages who were to play a leading part in the proposed rising.
The British authorities have declared that the reprisals which have taken place were not directed against the representatives of the Soviet Government as: such, but against private individuals whose presence at large in Constantinople would threaten the peace and public security New Yorx, Aug. 22.—A conference will shortly ba held in Mbxico City between the heads of the most important United States oil companies and Mexican officials with the object of. settling various questions affecting oil—Router.
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