INDIA'S PERIL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10639, 12 July 1920, Page 5

INDIA'S PERIL

THE "RED" FEVER MEASURES IN KABUL AND AFGHANISTAN. BOLSHEVIK CONCENTRATIONS. Br Telegraph-Press Assn.— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 10, 5.5 p.m.) SIMLA, July 9. * Groat uneasiness prevails in Kabul and Afghanistan. , It is reported that there arc Bolshevik concentrations at Bokhara and Tashkent.' It is eaid that the Bolsheviks have seven mobile divisions on the frontier. Enver Pasha is at Merv, and has been offered the command. The result has been a sharp division of opinion throughout Afghanistan. Ono parfcv, influential at court, favours giving' the Bolsheviks a. free passage through to India, and joining them in an attack. A portion of the army supports this view, but the large cultivated classes and merchants strongly oppose it and advocate resistance to the Bolsheviks. The Amir contemplates abdication. Meanwhile a mutiny occurred among the troops of the Afghan garrison at a frontier post 45 miles south of the Bolshevik advance guard. On July 2nd, tribes near Rumeartha in Mesopotamia, who have for some time past been incited by agitators to rebel, attacked the Government huildings at killed the Arab guards, and forcibly released some notorious agitators who had heen imprisoned on the previous day for inciting a rebellion. The railway lino has been cut In several places and considerable damago has been done. The military authorities have dispatched reinforcements, and operations having for their object the punishment of the tribes directly responsible are now in. progress. The situation elsewhere in Mesopotamia is satisfactory.