GROWING IN TURKESTAN

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 5

GROWING IN TURKESTAN

LARGE ..-FORCES.' ACTIVE. ('

(UNITED >PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRiaHT.) j I -(PDBUSHEb IN THE. TIMES.) \" '. '■(Receives ..10ta April, 10 a.m.) . •

,_.;....' :' ' ■ LONDON, 9th April. \ The - Riga, correspondent of "Tha Times" says that the desultory guerilla warfare which has \ been proceeding in Turkestan since January is rapidly developing intd ah1 extensive anti-Soviet revolt. The. main. body of the insurgents is composed of Sarts and hillmen,' out' many European- Russians led by experienced military men are also participating in it. , Trust worthy reports state that the insurgents number between twenty and thirty thousand horsemen, more orless disciplined and well organised, and provided with a consider, ably supply of modern artillery. ; The local Reds are losing ground, and are unable to cope with the . insurgents, .whose imethods of warfare include lightmng rajds, in which they are assisted by the local population, The; centre of .activity is Ferghana, where, ..after retiring to the hills last autumn, the insurgents spent .the winter in improving their, organisation and gathering adhei-