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Show 30VI et ins Hi l COMIC OPERA STYLE BA'KI", Azerbaijan. Feb. 25 By ths Associated Press.) One of t roce'nl Communist attempts to in-ude in-ude l'rr.-Ja and apture Teheran, its capital, had most of the elements ele-ments of a comic opera. The little army of 200 Georgian Invaders masqueraded as Persian women b wearing loose vriis and other clothing of women over th. !r uniforms. The queer appearance of the expedition ex-pedition aroused the suspicions f th Cheka when lt reached Enn.'l. a Persian seaport, ami the whole outfit wus arrested and taken ba k to ti i kn tor ainina t ion. Released, the Invaders set out afresh and advanced Into tlo mountains half way to Tcher.n here the peasants arose agaln.-u ihom and drove them out. The exploit is celebrated even lure amonK the many mad political politi-cal and military adventures which characterized the struggle of the British and Russians to captur" the Persian capital. lt Was headed by Slmoyuk Phak-.i.i..;, Phak-.i.i..;, who conceived the brilliant Idea of the' masquerade and who -till maintains that bis plan was a cood one. He is a son-in-law of Rasputin, the once celebrated Russian Rus-sian monk who was murdered after af-ter having attained ascendancy over the Russian court A Georgian by birth, he was 'or i time a hangor-on at the PetTO-grud PetTO-grud court but Joined the Communist Com-munist movement In 19H5 and thus escaped the fato that he mlgh' Otherwise have suffered because of his favor In imperial circles. He came here with the red tide in the spring of 1920. helped to oserthrow the Azerbaijan republic repub-lic and then undertook his wild heme to Invade and subdue Persia Per-sia with a disguised army. |