The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-07
ISSUES AT STAKE
 IN THE CAUCASUS
British Throw Wedge In Front of Bolshevist Ad- vance Which Seems to
 Embroil Turkey
. Rr CLAIa pRICr

London, February B. (Specia1) )-The collapse of Weniken produces highly critical situation in the Caucasus. In brief, if the bolshevist army joints nationalists, Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia. already aflame with discon- tent. are brought at one operation with
 in the bolshevist sphere.
 The British have given de factor recog- milton to the governments of the Geor- gian, Azerbaijan and Armenian rcpuo- lies in the Caucasus, thus establishing a
 British wedge between the advancing bclshevists and the Turkish nationalisSs, of which one wing rests on the Black Sea. which is commanded by the British Mediterranean fleet, and the ocner on the Caspian Sea.
 Talk of dispatching British expedi- tionary force to stiffen the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Armenian armies in the Caucasus. persists in London. Two hun dIed thousand men was the maximum strength named here. but the British RSSs- sian policy is so thoroughly confused that the talk no sooner takes shape in the newspapers than "semi-offieial sources promptly deny it.
 Recent reports from Aleppe, the Far thest north town of the Arab lands be- low the Taurus mountains stated that Mustapha's forces were closing in on it,
 
 against the British in Mesopotamia is known to have Turkish nationalist con nections. Both developments indicate a growing understanding between the Turks and the Arabs, the Turks in- famed by the presence of the Greeks in smyrna and the prospect of the return of the Armenians to eastern Anatolia, and the Arabs inflamed by the presence of the French in Syria and the British in Mesopotamia. The Arabs have long been bitter enemies of the Turks and af- forded valuable aid to the British in Mesopotaynia. The Arabs have long been bitter enemies of the Turks and afforded valuble aid to the British in dri ns ] the Turk from the Suez Canal and back behind the Taurus Mountains
 The same significance lies back of bol- shevist intrigues among the Turks in Asia Minor. Russia and Turkey h-ve been traditional enemies ever since Rus sion eyes turned toward Constantinopfe. Now that both are down and out, how they have made common cause against the allies, and were it not for the airsed wedge across the Caucasus, bolshiyst niitarv leadership would commar> an inexhaustible reservoir of Turkish and Arab man power, rising against the all lies all the way from the Caucasus to Egypt.
 The situation with respect to Persia is similar one. Little news has come out of Persia since the Anglo-Persan treaty of August g, 1919, was announced. me Anglo Persian treaty, by which Britain takes over the old Russian sphere of in. fluence in northern Persia has not t>en approved by the Persian Parliamens Bolshevist propaganda has already been busy in Persia for some time, and the bolshevist reach toward the Caucasus er route to Persia revives an old and interesting policy of Czarist Russia III the alleged will of Peter the Great ehe first of the modern Russian imperialists 1 says. Bear in mind that the commerce. l of India is the commerce of the world and that he who can exclusively conn mand it is dictator of Europe NO oc' casion should therefore be lost to provoke war with Persia, to hasten it's decay ane 1 to advance on the Persian gulf. | The old Russian policy in Persia 'Vt' l d;rected at the creation of secS1e | yiadivostock on the Persian Gulf, de 1 signed to free Russia from her Black Sea l iajl and from the Suez Canal, to sever the British overland route to India ano l to take British sea routes to India in the flank It is policy to when the hus- sian railway from Tiflis to Tabriz, m Persia. and the course of the Russian Trans-Caspian Railway from Kraeno- yodsk. on the Caspian down behind sne north Persian frontier, stand as mouu- ments. For Britain to consent to sucn a move on the part ,of Russia would be suicidal, and one of the terms on Wnich British aid was granted to DeniKin Yudenitch and Koltchak was that the Arglo-Persian treaty should be recog- nized by the new Russian government, which the three were to have set up. Dangerous as the old Russian policy vas to British interests in Persia, it's revival in bolshevist hands Is even more dan gerous.
 It is for the vast stake of Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia that Sle bolshevists are playing in the Caucasus It is for the winning of the same stake that the British have given de facto rec ognition to the governments of the Geor- gian. Azerbaijan and Armenian repub- lies, and have thrown wedge across tie Caucasus in front of the advancing Sol- shevists.
 Copyright. 1910.)
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