A LABOUR CONFERENCE

Taihape Daily Times, 27 May 1919, Page 5

A LABOUR CONFERENCE

Received 10.40 a.m. LONDON, May 26. A conference between the triple alliance (railwaymen. miners, and transporters) and the Trades "Union Parliamentary Party discussed methods of enforcing the resolutions cabled on Ap?fl 17'ik. It was decided to defev decision until the Parliamentary Committee consulted the Government.

INDIA QUIET.

(Delayed.) Received May 27, 9.0 a.m. LONDON, May 15. The situation in India is quiet. An expeditionary force for Afghanistan is concentrated at. Peshawar. AFGHANS RETREATING (Delayed in Transit), Received 10.40 a.m.LONDON, May 15. The British have occupied Khargali capturing two guns. The enemy is retreating towards Dakka. AFGHANS PANIC-STRICKEN BY AEROPLANES. SIMLA, May 24. When our aeroplanes bombed Jelallabad the inhabitants were panicstricken, and the town was almost desc, ,ed. Looters helped themselves liberally to unprotected army stores. Generally, the tribal situation is more settled. After the Amir's chief armistice envoy had been sent back, his two companions produced the Amir's firman, in which he stated that he had been informed that discussions between the Afghan envoy and the Foreign Scc- ) retary and the Government of India regarding the cessation of the war had opened the door for peace. The Amir, therefore, authorised the three envoys to proceed to the ,lß,ritish camp to "discus s the terms of peace. If you ' find the ground unfavourable for peace, 'inform me." The two remaining envicys have now been sent back with the information that there is nothing to add to the message already handed to the chief envoy.

AMIR'S TREACHERY REVEALED

SIMLA, May 24

A Bblshcvik [wireless jfrom Tashkent, announces the receipt of two letters from Kabul, dated April 7th, and addressed to the President of the Russian Republic. In one the Amir declared that Russia, by 'raising the standard of Bolshevism, had earned the gratitude of the whole world. In the other, Mahmud Tarzi, the Amir's commissary of foreign affairs, expressed the hope that permanent friendly relations between the Bolsheviks and Afghanistan would be established. Another Bolshevik wireless from Tashkent, addressed to the Eastern Propaganda Bureau, asks Barkatulla, the renegade Indian agitator, to finish his promised pamphlet on Bolshevism in the Koran and despatch one hundred thousand copies in Hindustani, Persian, and Arabic languages.

A further message from Kushk, addressed to ail Eastern stations, announces that Afghanistan is rallying The mountain tribes with the view of securing an exit to the sea by gaining possession of the port of Karachi.