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Show BLIQHT OF SOVIET RUINS FINE CITIES BAKU. Azerbaijan. Jan. 28. This oil city on the Caspian sea. formerly a trading mart of the Caucasus, is suffering suf-fering severely from the destructive financial and political changes brought by tho world war. Its customers in Bokhara. Mcrv, Khiva. Samarkand and Tashkent, cities cit-ies rich in property, culture and glory for a thousand years, also have been struck by the present day cvclone 'n limner do I hone Ir.idlnsr cities send to Baku their cotton, silk, rood and deftly woven carpets to find their way Into the salous of central nd western Europe. In consequence, business Is bad. The old order Is changed. The old classes which onco made these cities prosperous have been cast down i.ud their places have beem taken by soviet revolutionary committees. Principalities formerly well ordered have been dragged down in the boll vion of social anarchy. The Princes Taikovsky. who once owned large tract:-; of land along the Caucasus side of the Caspian sea and several hin-dred hin-dred square miles of the sea Itself, lor meiiy made whole cities prosperous by their fishing industry. Today they are cither dead or have fled abroad. |