EASTERN TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3581, 17 September 1920, Page 5

EASTERN TROUBLES.

RIOTING IN KOREA

Received 9.25 a.m.

TOKIO, Sept. 16

Press advices from Korea state that Korean rioters recently killed many Japanese and Korean policemen, especially during the .visit of the American Congressmen.

MESOPOTAMIAN REVOLT.

ERECTION OF BLOCK-HOUSES.

Received 9.15 a.m,

LONDON, Sept. 16.

Mesopotamian communiques show that: the rebels continue their efforts to stop the erection of block-houses aTong the railway, but despite sniping and scattered, attacks, the work is progressing satisfactorily. A number of political officers and other civil servants reported missing in Mesopotamia have reached places of safety. BIG FIRE AT BAGDAD. •-''' INCENDIARISM BY ARABS. LONDON, Sept. 16. A great military motor car depot at Bagdad wag burnt recently, with supplies of petrol worth at least a million sterling, necessitating huge Government purchases in Britain. The fire was due to incendiarism, Arabs starting twelve fires simcltlaneously.

ARGHANISTAN.

PRO-BRITISH PARTY BECOMING STRONGER.

DELHI Sept, 16. . Afghanistan Is taking the fullest, precaution in View of the Bolshevik invasion of Bofttiara. The pro-British party i& becoming stronger every day. The Amir has increased restriction >on the Bolshevik mission in Kabul, officers being coldly treated. The Bolshevik massacres in Turkestan find Tuthless oppression have aroused reaction in Afghanistan, the general feeling now being for peaceful life and alliance with the British. Advice rfom Baku state that Bravin will shortly arrive in Teheran from Moscow, as Soviet representa-' tiwe. Bravin came to Teheran in the winter of 1918 as Soviet representative. He was unrecognised and after a short stay left.