MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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INDIAN PROCLAMATION. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) DELHI, Aug. 21. A Royal Proclamation announces it is impossible for the Prince of Wales to visit India this cold weather without danger to his health. If he recovered fully, the visit will be made in the following winter. In order to inaugurate Indian reforms, the Duke of Connaught will visit India this winter and open the chamber of the Prince’s and new Indian Legislative Assembly.

THE PERSIAN POSITION. (Received fhis day at 9.30 a.m.) DELHI, Aug. 21. Severe fighting against Bolsheviks and rebels in Persia continues, with further success to the British. While the British were attacking on Kashin and Engil our forces made a detour by a mountain track further on the road to Mengil apd captured six machine guns and 80 prisoners. Thence Cossacks proceeded to capture Mengil. enemy are in full retreat to Resht. British captured a Red Cross nurse working a machine gun. The situation in Mesopotamia is undoubtedly serious, but there is no need of excessive alarm. Attacks on our forces at Hillali and Euphrates on Wednesday night were not pressed hpme. Our detachments at Samawe and Kufa though isolated, are in a satisfactory position and good spirits. We have withdrawn from Pah to Ramadi, but the line is held by local levies>under British officers. The position there is satisfactory, though railway communication between Bagdad and Farluja is cut. Railway communication north of Bagdad is satisfactory. . Tribesmen were massing at Baguaba where we hold Marshall’s bridge by which the railwaycrosses the Diala, It will be some time before communication in Persia is restored. There is some unrest in Kirkeak divisions, burtelsewhere all is quiet.

UNREST IN MESOPOTAMIA. LONDON, August 19. The War Office announces that further outbreaks have occurred in Mesopotamia on a consideable scale, particularly north-east and west of Bagdad Bands of tribesmen cut the railway and telegraph lines from Bagdad to Kifri. Part of the garrison at Kifri is invested. Several ,railway bridges over the Euphrates have been burnt and communications with the Ramadi and Feliija garrisons have been cut. The tribes south of Bagdad are quiet. The revolutionary movement, which was at first political, has become anarchial, and the former ringleaders, alarmed at the turn of events are throwing their influence on the side of peace. Reinforcements from India are on their way to Mesopotamia.