GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1887, 11 August 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

Received August 1!. 12.55 p.m. DELHI, August 10.

Abnormal monsooiial rains have caused floods throughout, the country. being parti* cularly severe in Bengal, where a number of villages were swept a.way. At Jamsliedpu,- a' thousand lints in the native quarter were destroyed, and many people are homeless. Large areas of crops in various districts have been destroyed. '1 he main streets ol Calcutta are deeply Hooded, and traffic lias been suspended. Heavy damage was done to property. Advices from Kabul state that the Government is discussing the proposed treaty with Britain. In view of the coiicesHons Offered by Britain the Bolshevik influence is waning, it is understood that delegates will shortly leave again for India, to conclude a treaty. It is reported that a strong party is trying to oust the Amir from the throne, but so far their efforts have been futile.

Reports from Tnrkistun state that the Bolsheviks have dismissed al! .Moslem teachers from the schools and introduced Bolshevik propaganda, confiscated the valuables of rich merchants and placed them under surveillance to prevent them escaping' from the country.. in order, .to. escape from Bolshevik rule. Birtanis of emigrants are pouring oyer the frontier into India, where the Foreign Political nepartnient has created a special section with the view to combating the Bolshevik propaganda there and in .Middle Asia.

Advices from Bagdad state that the column, under Brigadier-General Coningbarn, returning from Dowaniyali reached Jlilla after dealing with ihe rebel villages on route. All the rolling stock of the railvats in the disturbed area has been secured. An ineft’pcli.ve attack was made by the rebels on Mohmidiya, on Saturday night. 1 here arc indications that tin- rebels are demoralised and that the spread_of the disUirbanees is checked. Reinforcement troops tram India have begun to reach Basra.-'-(A. and N'.Z. cable.) PARIS, August 10. The Turkish Treaty has been signed. —(A. and N.Z. cable.) SYDNEY. August 11. Tim City Council has passed a iesolnlion in favour of a municipal undertaking to reduce the edit of funerals.—{Press Association). MELBOURNE, August 11. The prospect of a .‘trike among the New ’'South Wales coalminers is greatly perturb mg Victoria as Industrie; are keenly feeling the cest,l shortage, having to utilise half blown coal, and having no reserves. Tim war gtutilities issued io the end of July amounted to £12,,600.000; of which £2,000.000 has been cashed.—(Press Assooio. tion).