NEAR EASTERN FERMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17449, 20 April 1920, Page 5

NEAR EASTERN FERMENT.

—■ -•- . TURCO-RUSSIAN PLOTS. CONSPIRATORS AT MUNICH. REVOLUTIONARY SCHEMES. By Telegraph—rress Association—Copyright. A. and N.Z. "WASHINGTON, April 18. According to official advices, Talaat Pasha and Mustapha Kernel, .the Turkish Nationalist conspirators, have been conferring at Munich with tho German Communists and Lenin's emissaries fur the , purpose of organising concerted revolutionary movements in Turkey, Persia, India, and Egypt. It is understood that Moslem delegates from India, Persia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and Egypt participated in a recent conference* with* Lenin in Moscow. ARABS THREATEN JEWS. HOSTILITY TO ZIONISTS. Renter. LONDON, April 18. The Zionist organisation has learned from Palestine that a group of Arabs is demanding the suppression within five days of the Zionist Commission, the expulsion of its leaders, and the disbandment of the Jewish battalion, otherwise a general massacre of Jews is threatened, ihe Zionist organisation states that the Administration accepted these demands, which Lord Alien by later rejected. The Foreign Office states that Lord Allenby has been instructed to inquire into the circumstance*, and to take even precaution to inform the Arabs that "their demands cannot be entertained. ARMENIANS IN ARMS. TARTAR TERRITORY INVADED. A. and N.Z. CI c6NSTANTINOFLE, April 18. The Armenian newspaper Jagdamard publishes a communique issued by the Armenian Government at Erivan" an nouncing that the Armenians in the Zan-gezur-Karabagh districts rose against the Tartar Government in the middle of March. After desperate fighting they overran the intervening Tartar area and captured a number of villages and the Fifth and Seventh Battalions of the Azerbaijan regular army. The cause of the outbreak was a TurcoTartar attempt to disarm the Armenians.