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Show II euEinLiTiT Will BE OPPOSES I LONDON, Jan. 1G. The impression ; here today thai in tlie conference at :s IHyIb of Premier L.loyd George, Win- i - ton Spencer Churchill, ihc war minis- M !fr, Walter Hume Long, first lord of l 1 'ho admiralty, Baron Beatly, com- j mrnder of the grand fleet, and Field 1 Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, chief of 'he imperial staff, it would be decided t o take some defensive action against , 1 73olshevik militaiy aggression. The Persian government has requested re-quested Great Britain to state what assistance can be giv.cn Persia In the event of a Bolshevik invasion and what defensive action by Persia would j accord with the British policy. An unconfirmed report from Berlin Lays that Enver Pasha, former Turkish Turk-ish war minister, who was recently crowned king of Kurdestan, has been in Berlin and has proceeded to Asia Minor. This raises the question ol whether he was trying to enlist the support of German extremist elements in carrying out co-operation between the Turks and the Bolsheviki, Advices to the Lettish legation here j from Riga under yesterday's date I state that a Bolshevik offensive along the Reschitza-Kreutzburg railway on Wednesday was repulsed. The Letts counter-attacked and captured somei prisoners. The lets took six villages s between Dvinsk and Antopol and occu-t pied the station of Pytalovo. Reschitza. the advices say. is surrounded sur-rounded on all sides and it is believed that if the Poles created a demonstration demonstra-tion in the south a hurried retreat of ', the Bolshevik forces on this front will J j be caused, i nn |