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Show PROTEST IS MADE BY RUSSIAN MINISTER Union of Bessarabia With Rumania Regarded as Violation of Agreement. . MOSCOW, Thursday, April 18 (By the Associated Press). A strong protest pro-test has been made by M. Tchitcherin, Russian foreign minister, to the Rumanian Ru-manian premier, concerning the announcement an-nouncement that representatives of Bessarabia had proclaimed the union of their country with Rumania and that Rumania would hereafter regard Bessarabia as an integral part of Rumania. Ru-mania. This, says Minister Tchitcherin, is not only in defiance of the Russian Soviet republic, but is a flagrant violation vio-lation of an agreement previously concluded con-cluded with Russia for the evacuation of Bessarabia. It is also a violation of the aspirations of the local population popula-tion and expresses only the will of the large land owners of Bessarabia, "who are sworn enemies of the people peo-ple and adepts in exploiting them under un-der the protection of Rumanian bayonets." bayo-nets." The fusion of the two countries, coun-tries, he declares, will not destroy the fraternal solidarity which unites the working masses of Bessarabia and Russia. |