EASTERN TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1920, Page 3

EASTERN TROUBLE

j i AUSTU.-LiaN (k N.Z. UAUl.li ASSOCIATION 1 REBELS IN MESOPOTAMIA. (Recoived this day at 8 a.in.) DELHI, August 6. The situation in Mesopotamia, is increasingly serious. Rebels are only fifty miles from Bagdad. . All railway communication to Basra has ceased. Tribesmen command the river approaches to Bagdad by way of the lower Euphrates. Communication with the city is difficult. BAGDAD IN DANGER. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) DELHI, August 6. Bagdad messages states all responsible elements in tho city unite in urging Government to take drastic stops against tho Tribes extremist leaders, to whose efForts alone, with tho help of tho Shariiian Government, the present disturbances are due. Tribesmen are nervoyp as a result of their intrigues which they fear will prove the deathblow to their hopes. The Arab Government fear French action in Syria, will he followed by similar action by Great Britain. Troops and transport have left India for Basra. , CONNAUGHT RANGERS MUTINY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) DELHI, August 6. A Court V>f Enquiry held regarding the Connaught Rangers mutiny at J\il--1 undue, found the outbreak was a prearranged, organised movement in the (cause of Sinn Feinist. The. General Commanding the Sixteenth Division con-j curs in the finding and recommended ninety ringleaders be tried by courtmartial. ‘