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Show ALARMIST RUMOR OFFICIALLY DENIED LONDON, Dec. 17. Official denial cf the report circulated by the Kusslan Bol-sheviki Bol-sheviki that hostile Persians had mao-sacred mao-sacred the British garrison of 1300 men at Meshed, Persia, was. made by the war office today. The announcement stated that this report had "been repeated to the war office without comment by the officer commanding at Meshed three days after the alleged destruction of himself and his command." The dispatch from the Meshed commander was received at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It is declared by officials here that the report was obviously Bolshevik propaganda prop-aganda intended to stir up trouble in the east, particularly in India. |