EASTERN TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3550, 12 August 1920, Page 5

EASTERN TROUBLES.

AFGHANS AND BRITAIN.

'l’RL}'xTY AG-Am DISCUSSED. , BOL:I:IEVIK I N FLUEN CE WANES. LONDON, August 10. Advices from. Kabul state that. the Governnient is discussing the proposed treaty with Britain. In view of the’ K:-oncessions ofiered [by B‘xita.in7‘. Bodlihevik influence is Waning. If is understood that delegates will shortly leave again for India. to conclude :3. treaty. It; is neportcd that a. strong party is trying to oust the Emir from the throne, but so far its efforts have proved futile.

FLIGHT FROM TURKESTAN.

TYRANNY OF BOLSHEVISM.

DELHI, August 10.

Reports-from Turkestan state that the Bolsheviks have dismissed all Mos-‘ lem teachers from the schools, introduced Bolshcvik propaganda, confiscated the valuables of rich merchants, and placed them under surveillance to preventthem sescaping from the countryin order to escape 80-lsheivik rule. Streams of emigrants are pouring over the frontier into India, where the Foreign Political Department has created a special section with a. view to combating 80-Ishevik propaganda there and in Middle Asia. _ ‘ .

MESOPOTAMIAN ,REVOLT_ DEMORALISATION OF REBELS. ' . DELHI, August 10. Advices from Bagdad state that a. column‘undel- Brigadier-General Coningham, I'etufning from Dewaniyah, reached Hila, on the Euphrates south rebel‘ vilTagCS en route. All the rol-ling-stock of the railways in the disturbed area has been secuged. An effective attack was maile by the rebels on 'Mohmidiya on Saturday night. There are indications that the rebels are demoralised and that the spread of the disturbances is ‘checked. Reinforcement ;t.l-otovps from India. have begun to reach Basra. _ ‘ RELIEF OF R-UMAILA. _ STORY OF THE -SEIGE.

Recei‘/edv 8.55 am‘

SIMLA, August 11

Details/are available from Bagdzad of tlfe seige of Rum“aila, which was recently relieved by a .s*t.ron.g column. The garrison at Rumalia consisted "of seven pIa:_fO011S of the 114th Mahrgattas and 99th Infantry, and two hundred British -civilians working on the railway. These held out for three weeks, rations and anluni’rion being dropped into the Seria. which they fortified.

The gitrrison further proviiled for themselves by occasional sorties into the B:tza:u'.~:_, made p<);::'~‘ibl(3 by aeroplanes bombing ~the outskix := of the town and distracting tllc‘a’rAlenti<m of

the investing army. While the garrison rushed‘ the bazars, a regiment of Sikhs inade :1. bold attempt to relieve iflie garrison but Ithe tfxrabs succeeded in cutting off the wa.ter_fro-m the canal upon which the regiment was depexflfent. The Sikhs tfhen ‘had fio mdtire, sufi’ering iheavvy casualtiés. 4» .

The Arabg finally fled on the aploach of :1 's7tr-ong column from Bagdad.

FIGH'I"I.\'G IN’ PERSTA

TROUBLE XVITH BOLSHEVIKS.

Received 8.55.

SIMLA, August 11

Tcheran mlvicos state that fighting has »''taken place between Katchen Khan and his late Bolshevik allies. The latter looted -anci largely burnt down the rebel stronghold at Reshit. They have proclaimed ziJ’general mobilisation and are unsuccessfully trying to eonscript ‘Persians between the ages -of 18 and 45.

The Sharh presented General Varogselsky, 21 Russian general in command of the Cossack divisiotl. with 3 ma-mond-belted Sword in recogni‘rion of his nuilitary services.

CHTNESE RE-CONSTRUCTION.

Rec:-iwzd 8.55

PEKIN, August 11

General Chin quin Pong has been re-appointed acting-Prexnier. The personnel “of the remainder of the Cabinet has not yet been announced.

THE TURKISH TREATY.

HEDJA_.Z REFUSES TO SIGN.

Received 10.25.

' .‘"S.RIS, Auguévt 10Hedjaz refused ‘v sign the Turkish Treaty.

Le-M-atin says the King insists on Syria being.given to Feisul, indicating his ambition to creaté :1 vast Arab Kingflom, in which his sons in Syria am} Masopatsnfia would only be his :3 :12-e"-z:2'_nt.<.', ~ """‘

FLOODS IN INDIA.

VILLAGES. SWEPT AWAY

CALCUTTA UNDER WATER.

DELHI, August 10.

Abnormal mcnsoonal rains have caused flood throughout the couutl‘_V. Tlhoy are particula-I'ly .<u\'cro in Bengal, where a numbol"aof viiizsges were swept away. At Jzlms.hedpul' :1 thousand huts in the nafive quarter were destroyed, many people being homeless. Lu‘:-go areas of crops in \'.".riolls districts have been dés«troyed.

The main s'fi'eets of Callcutta. were deeply flooded and «frafiic was suspended. Heavy damage was done. fo property. ’