EASTERN TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3568, 2 September 1920, Page 5

EASTERN TROUBLES.

o MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN. TROUBLE NQKTH OF BAGDAD. SAMARA UNDER SIEGE. LONDON, Aug. 31. A Mesopotamia communique reports: “In the Hillah area, 60 miles south of the Thirty-fourth Brigade column conducted" punitive measures. In several localities north of Bagdad the country is becoming more disturbed. Samara, 80 miles north of Bagdad, is reported to be invested. North-east ef Bagdad, the garrison of Tffz Khermutli has been relieved. A small column drove off the enemy, killing thirty. Bakubah station and town, which were sacked by the insurgents, were retaken on Saturday. In North-west Persia the Persian Cossacks are refitting at Monjil. The “Reds” did not pursue them. Our reconnaissance reports no enemy within 20 miles of Monjil. A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT. Received 11.50 a.m. DELIII, Sept. 1. Samara has been attacked by local is necessary to withdraw civil officials from Shattam and Howauduz owing to outbreaks. Samara has been tteked *by local tribes, Who were repulsed. The rail-, way to Mosud was temporarily interrupted. The situation in Kirkua is now improves, ana we have regained touch from Kirkua with our detachments at Kinarbau and Tang. ' ' MOSLEM EMIGRATION. DEPORABLE STATE OP AFFAIRS. Received 11.50 a.m. DELHI, Sept. 1. The Moslem emigration movement to Afghanistan has now collapsed. Those still in Kabul are in a deplorable condition. Owing to the danger of disaffection, many of the emigrants were sent by the Amir to a remote district beyond Hindukush. Only a few Bolshevik agenTs now remain in Kabul, and their movements are being restricted by the Afghan Government. The British Government is feeding and clothing the emigrants who straggled back througn the Khyber Pass, FIGHTING IN PERSIA. BOLSHEVIKS STILL ACTIVE. DELHI, Sept. I. Persian Cossacks, under Starosselsks, who recently defeated the Bolsheviks at Resht, were obliged by •superior forces to fall back on Menjil, where a force supported by Britishtroops is now resting. The Bolsheviks have not made any advance beyond the immediate neighbourhood of Resht. MUSTAPHA KEMAL. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. . I PARIS, Aug. 31. The report of tlie attempted ®assassination of the Nationalist leader Mustapha Kemal received, iq Constantnople, states that it occurred during a trip to outside Tokat. A man on the roadside fired three shots, killing Kemal’s companion. Kemal was hit in a leg. The assassin was captured ana executed.