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...Russian Army, estimated 200,000 strong, based on Tiflis and stationed throughout one of Russia's favorite training grounds, the Kura River valley. Through this valley from the wells at Baku to refineries at Batum (see map), runs Russia's prime oil pipeline. Another line runs north of the Caucasus from Grozny to Tuapse on the Black...
Thereafter, he led the life of a Russian professional revolutionary. He took part in a railroad strike in Tiflis. He was an organizer in Batum and Baku factories. He had something to do with the series of spectacular robberies that the "revolutionists" engineered. Once a Government-convoyed truck was bombed in the Tiflis main square, and 341,000 rubles ($170,000) in cash was taken from it. Maxim Litvinoff, incidentally, was later caught in Paris with some of this money on his person. "Soso" wandered from town to town in the Caucasus, using numerous aliases. Five times he was arrested...
...bigwigs in Soviet America of tomorrow TIME gladly presents onetime Newsstand Buyer Edwards. Since July cargoes of Soviet wheat from Sebastopol, coal and coal tar from Nicolaiev, and oil from Batum have been regularly arriving at Massaua and Mogadishu, Italian war bases in Africa. Much Soviet oil is also being sold to Italy direct, as Communists paradoxically fuel the Fascist fleet...
...member of the international oil conference which sought to limit Russian exports. Although they muttered about an "embargo," Ottawa was of the opinion that nothing could legally be done. Newshawks discovered the Russian tanker Aase Maersk lying in Montreal harbor loaded with 9,000 tons of rich crude from Batum, already consigned to La Salle Petroleum...
Exactly where in Russia Minister Hart was, the State Department did not know. Geographers believed that his itinerary lay to Constantinople, then across the Black Sea to Batum in Georgia, whence he would go by train across the Transcaucasian S. F. S. R. to Baku. There he would ship down the Caspian to Barfrush, going overland to Teheran. Had he traveled through countries officially recognized by the U. S., his route would have taken him to Damascus, with a flight to Bagdad or perhaps by water around Arabia and up to the head of the Persian Gulf...