AFGHANISTAN TROUBLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1862, 12 July 1920, Page 6

AFGHANISTAN TROUBLE.

SIMLA. July 9. Great uneasiness prevails at Kabul, in Ughanistiin. It w reported that there are ..-re-ii t'ofshevik concentrations at Bokhara, .\lerv and Tashkent, ll is Miid that the Bolsheviks have wven mobile divisioius on the frontier. Knver Pasha is at Merv, and he has been ottered command, and the. remit has been a sharp division of opinion InoiiKhoul Afghanistan. One party, which ; intlueutiul ai court, favours giving tho ilolsheviks a fire passage through to'lndia. •id joining them in the attack. A portion i (he army support? I his. but ihe large nltivatiug classes and merchant doss irongly oppose it. They advocate resist,i"i- to the Bolsheviks. The Amir contemplates abdication. Meanwhile u mutiny has occurred anions' lie troops of the Afghan garrison on the ronticr at a post 45 miles south of tho Bolshevik advance guard. On July 2nd the tribes near Rumeartha, Mesopotamia, who for some time past have been incited bv agitators to rebel, attacked (■he Government buildings in Rumeartha, TJicy killed the Arab guards, and forcibly released notorious agitators who had been imprisoned the previous day for inciting the rebellion. The railway line has been cut in several place, and considerable damage has. been done. The military authorities despatched reinforcements, having for_ thenobject the punishment of the tribes directly responsible. This is now in progress. The t-ituation elsewhere in .Mesopotamia is satisfactory. The' Sundav Express states that the Baghdad garrison has been cut oil by tho Arab revolt in Seniava. and advocates tho British withdrawn.! from Mesopotamia, where the permanent occupation would cosl £40,000,000 annually.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)