MIDDLE EAST

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 September 1921, Page 8

MIDDLE EAST

INDIAN TRIBES' RESISTANCE " COLLAPSING.

CHOIiERA ABATIKG IN AFGHANISTAN.

BOKHARA REPUBLIC RECOGNISED

MX CABLE-PBESS ASSQCIATION-COPYSIQHT ,-Received Sept, 12, 10.10 a.m. DELHI. Sept. 11. The resistance of "the-.-recalcitrant tribes is on the verge of collapse. Tjie widespread epidemic of cholera in' Afghanistan is reported to be abating. Djama Pasha and Suffitz, the late Russian envoy at Kabul, have left the capital. Suritz ha 9 been replaced by Ragkolniker, »_ Czarist officer, who joined the Bolsheviks. The Afghan Government has ordered the recognition of the Bokhatan Republic, and diplomatic relations have now-been resumed. The Russians are most anxious for a resumption of trade, but traders are shy in view of the uncertainty of their payment for their goods.