AFGHAN PEACE TERMS

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 189, 11 August 1919, Page 5

AFGHAN PEACE TERMS

FRONTIER DELIMITATION.: BRITISH COMMISSION TO ACT. TRAFFIC IN ARMS STOPPED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) SIMLA, August 10. The treaty of peace which has been signed by the British and Afghan delegates at Rawal Pindi provides for the stoppage of all importation of arms and munitions into Afghanistan through India, and for the confiscation by Great Britain of all arrears of the subsidy granted to the late Amir and the subsidy granted to the present Amir by the Indian Government. It is agreed that Britain shall receive another Afghan mission six months hence for a discussion of the settlement of various matters. The Afghan Government accepts the Indo-Afghan frontier accepted by the late Amir, also tbe early demarcation by a British commission "of the hitherto undemarcnted portion of the line west of the Khyber Pass, where the recent Afghan aggression happened. Tho Afgh: v Government agrees to accept such boundary as the British commission may lay down. British troops will remain in their present positions until the demarcation has been effected.—(Reuter)