MESOPOTAMIA AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1922, Page 3

MESOPOTAMIA AFFAIRS.

' DELHI. September 14. ! Details of the Mesopotamia trouble I have arrived modifying tbe previous information. Apparently the behaviour of the Kurdish levies is unsatisfactory, l-it this "as not the cause of tlie withdrawal wbieli is a.seribed to tbe strength of tribal contingents the Turks surceed,.<l in raising. The evacuation of officials |,y aeroplane "its carried out from Snlaitnani. Only a number of British officials were so removed, fifteen out ot a total of sixty-five, (he remainder bei,m recruited from non-Maaommedan personnel. Turkish forces are now imported to have withdrawn to Powandua, . and the tribal gathering dispersed. Tt ! i s reported Reverend Gates of the American Mnratlin Alission was murdered at Biinpur on the evening of the (itlt. Bi.liee arrested it Mohammedan. I A COSTLY FILLY. LONDON. Sept j George I.nmbton pure-based a T>’ trareb-Lady Joseph inn. filly for 9.117 ; guineas at Doncaster yearling sales. ■ j INDIAN TROUBLES.

(Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) DELHI. September VI. j Amritsar trouble has a dead- ! ]> lock but Aklialis bauds continue to arrive R The Governor of Punjab is hastening >1 te Amritsar to see the situation and l’ s confer with the leading Sikhs. The dis--h puted land is encircled with barbed ,t; wire. It is stated five hundred police are concentrated therein. Akhalis attempting to penetrate the barricade were forcibly repulsed.' Police seized °- two lorry loads of provisions proceed',e ing to Ourukbagh.

1 OF \TI lOF JOHN OSBORNE. 1 LONDON. Seit. 12. • The death is announced of John Ost Ihviio. the trainer and jockey. T T ■ 1 ' vf.de in thirty-eight, consecutive T)c----v? hies, winning in 1809. He twice won the Oaks and St Leger,