EASTERN TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3580, 16 September 1920, Page 6

EASTERN TROUBLES.

• REVOLT. BRITISH COLUMNS BUSY. LONDON, Sept. 13. The War Office states: A Mesopotamia communique reports the blockhouse construction is continuing in the face ol consistent sniping, which is causing slight casualties. The eo.-i.- which left Bagdad on the -6th advanced .without opposition •over fifty miles to Abujisrali, when it met and ..breed back insurgents, estimate.! -.t 600.. to Morat canal, where they were put out of action fcy cavalry. The insurgents retired towards Sharaban, where the column arrived on• the 10th' and exacted a fine of rifles from* hostile inhabitants. One of the murderers of Mr. Buchanan was tried and executed. Meantime, 300 insurgents attacked the post left at Abujisarh, but scattered on the timely appearance, ofan aeroplane, which bombed and ma-hine-gunned them. A determined insurgent * +.,t;rm at Samara on tne the railway station ax o» 11th was repulsed.

THE PERSIAN SITUATION

NO FIGHTING FOR TEN DAYS

DELHI, Sept. 14

Advices from Teheran state that no fighting occurred on the right front during the last ten days. The- Cossacks are preparing fresh advances. They have occupied Imonuadehashim. A British column from Persia has advanced into Mesopotamia and expects to meet a column from Bagdad, near Sharaban, on the 30th, thus reStoring communication between Persia and Mesopotamia.

MYSTERIOUS RELIGION.

RE-ESTABLISHED IN" JAPAN

TOKIO. Sept. 13

A new mysterious religion, Omo Tykyo, has been recently ed in Japan. It is said to be an extreme form of socialism, aiming at the destruction of the existing social order. Members of the cult are mostly retired discontented military men.

JAPANESE SHIPPING SLUMP.

EIGHTY STEAMERS IDL.

TOKIO, Sept. 14

' Depression in the shipping business is so acut? that the Government has despatched officials to Kobe and Osaka to investigate the situation and suggest" remedies. Approximately eighty steamships a.-e idle in the principal 'Japanese ports. A prominent shipping official said store houses arc choked'with goods, but nothing is beine taken out. therefore th-rre was no need for the steamers.