CENTRAL ASIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1921, Page 5

CENTRAL ASIA.

BOLSHEVIK POLICY ALTERED. NORTHERN PERSIA EVACUATED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright, Delhi, June 25. News from Central Asia indicates that the Bolsheviks in Europe are abandoning their earlier policy of extreme harshness and repression, and are encouraging all production and endeavoring to establish settled governments in the occupied countries. This departure from strict Communism is to some extent an admission of failure, and has made the Bolsheviks in Bokhara uneasy. Guerilla warfare is going on in the hill country about Hissar, where the ex-Amir has resisted for some time. Considerable friction has occurred between the Bolsheviks, the Republican Bokharane, and the revolutionary Afghan party in Baku and Bokhara. This is embarrassing the Bolsheviks at Kabul. There is a widespread belief that a successful conclusion of the British Kabul negotiations would be welcomed by everyone on the frontier, where the situation is improving. This is attributed to the growing raproaehment in Waziristan. The hostile tribesmen are war weary, and a satisfactory conclusion of the negotiations with Afghanistan will probably result in a rapid collapse. The Russians have completed the evacuation of Northern Persia, but 206 Tartars deserted to the Persian rebels at Ghiten, the latter inflicting a severe reverse on the Government troops. The Shah, opening Parliament at Teheran, expressed satisfaction at denunciation of the British agreement and the signature of the Russian Agreement. He announced that a treaty had been signed with Afghanistan.