FRONTIER WARFARE.

Grey River Argus, 12 December 1928, Page 5

FRONTIER WARFARE.

Due to Religious Fanatics. CALCUTTA, December 16. A message from Peshawur reports iExit a truce was declared between the Shinwau rebels and Afghan officials, at Dakka. Parleys are progretalng for u, final settlement, and pcact is said to be in sight. The trouble was definitely due to the opposition by the fanatical priests to the King’s radical reforms, particularly the 1 ducation o£’ girls and the abandonment of thV Purdah. Soviet reports that Colonel Lawrence, of Arabian fame, is concerned in the rebellion are describ as vn true and mischievous. Lawrence is working with the air force ac Mir an shan, ami is not connected with Afghan internal or external affairs. "QUESTION IN COMMONS. RUGBY, December 10. Queetion» were asked in the Commons regarding the situation in Afghanistan. Mr Locker Lampson stated the Go vernment were unaware that any British lives wpxe in danger there. The 'Government were in constant communicat’ior by wireless with r he British Minister at Kabul, who would take all possible steps to secure protection from the Afghan Gov/ rummt. lie believed there were one or two thousand British subjects in Afghanistan, but of these very few vi re British people. He understood that the disturbances were confined to the neighbourhood of Jalalabad and Dakka, and 'that negotiations for a setti ment in "these were proceeding.