India Threatened.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 177, 12 July 1920, Page 5

India Threatened.

AFGHANS AND BOLSHEVJKS. DISQUIETING DEVELOPMENTS

BIG RED CONCENTRATIONS

. By CaLle.—Press Association.—Copy right.] Simla, July 9. Great uneasiness prevails at Kabul, in Afghanistan. A great Bolshevik concentration at Bakhana, Merv and Tashkent is reported. It is said the Bolsheviks have seven mobile divisions on the frontier. Enver Pasha at Merv has been offered the command. The result has been a sharp division of opinion throughput Afghanistan. One party influential at the Court'favours giving the Bolsheviks a free passage through to India and joining them in an attack. A portion of the army supports this, but the large cultivating classes’ and the merchant class strongly oppose it. They advocate resistance to the Bolsheviks. The Amir contemplates abdication. Meanwhile a mutiny occurred among troops of the Afghan garrison on a frontier post forty-five miles south of the Bolshevik advance guard on 2nd July. •

REBELLION IN MESOPOTAMIA. Tribes near Rumeartha (Mesopotamia) who for some time past have been incited by agitators to rebel, attacked the Government buildings in Rumeartha, kilted Arab guards and. forcibly released notorious agitators, who had been imprisoned the previous day for inciting a rebellion. The railway line has been cut in several places and. considerable damage has been done. The military authorities despatched reiniorcements, which is having for its object the punishment of the tribes directly responsible. This is now in progress. The situation elsewhere in Mesopotamia is satisfactory.—(A. and N.Z.) NO TRADE WITH, BRITAIN. IF EASTERN CONTINUES. London, July 10. A Moscow wireless details the terms on which trade with Britain will J>e resumed. In addition to conditions y,-eviously cabled it is provided that the Soviet Government refrain from military action or propaganda assisting Eastern peoples against British interests. Britain retains the right to object to the appointment of any Soviet official agent. Krassin with a strengthened staff is leaving for London.— (A. and N.Z-) BAGDAD CUT OFF. AN ARAB RISING. London, July 11. The “Sunday Express” states that the Bagdad garrison is cut off by an Arab revolt in Semava and advocates British withdrawal from Mesopotamia, where permanent occupation would cost forty millions annually.—(A. and N.Z.)