THE AFGHAN INVASION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17635, 27 May 1919, Page 5

THE AFGHAN INVASION.

BOMBING- JELLALABAD. AMIB'S PEACE OVERTUREf, , . Frwa Aaeeauktioa—By Tel«iyrapi—CopyrishV SIMLA, May 24. (Received May 26, at 8 pjn.) When >our aeroplanes bombed Jellalabad the inhabitants were panic-strioken, and tlio town was almost deserted, the Afghan troops leading the flight. Looters helped themselves liberally to unprotected army stores. Generally, the tribal situation is mare settled. After the Amir's chief armistice envoy had been sent back, his two companions produced the Amir's firman, in which, fie stated that he had been informed that discussions between an Afghan envoy and the Foreign Secretary and the Government of India regarding tho cessation of war had opened the door for peace. The Amir therefore authorised the three envoys to proceed to the British camp to "discuss terms of peace. If yon find the ground favourable for peace, inform ma" The two remaining envoys have now been sent back, with the information that there is nothing to add to the message already; •handed to the chief envoy.—Renter. BOLSHEVIST ACTIVITY. LETTERS FROM THE AMIR. INDIAN RENEGADE'S WORK. SIMLA, May 24. (Received May 26, at 8 p_m.) Bolshevist " s " re l ess message from rashkent announces the receipt of two letters from Kabul, dated April 7, and addressed to the president of the Russian Republic. In one the Amir declared that Russia, by raising the standard of Bolshevism, had earned the gratitude of the whole world. In the other, Mahmud JLarzi, the Amur's Commissary of Foreign AfEairs, expressed the hope that permanent tnendly relations between the Bolshevists and Afghanistan would now be established. Another Bolshevist wireless message from Tashkent, addressed to the Eastern Propaganda Bureau, asks Barkatulla, a renegade Indian agitator, to finish his promised pamphlet on Bolshevism in the Koran and despatch 100,000 copies in the Hindustani, Persian, and Arabic languages A further message from Kushk, addressed to all Eastern stations, announces that Afghanistan is rallying the mountain tribes with a view to securing an exit to the sea by gaining possession of Karachi port.—Reuter.