RUSSIA'S THREAT.
WILL BOMB KABUL.
Afghanistan Has Eight Days To Pay Soviet.
WAR DEBT ULTIMATUM.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)
(Received 12 iioon.)
DELHI, February 7. It is reported from Peshawar that Kussia has delivered an ultimatum to Bacchasakao, the rebel ruler, that unless he ceases pillage of the Kabul Treasury and pays £3,000,000 withi-i eight days for rifles, ammunition and £ar equipment supplied to the exKing Amanullah, Kabul will be bombed.
The story is not confirmed, but it is known that Afghanistan owes large sums to Russia for war equipment.
BRITISH 'PLANES.
EVACUATIONS FROM KABUL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, February 7. Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes yesterday evacuated 37 people from Kabul to Peshawar, including nine Persian and five Turkish women and children.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 33, 8 February 1929, Page 7
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