TROUBLE IN KURDISTAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17730, 15 September 1919, Page 5

TROUBLE IN KURDISTAN

BRITISH OPERATIONS. PROTECTING TRUNK RAILWAY. LONDON, September 11. A telegram received in Athens from Constantinople states that 12,000 British troops have landed at Scutari, on the Bosphorus, to occupy the Brusa-Afium Karahisar railway.—Reuter. KURDISH TRIBESMEN DEFEATED. RINGLEADER STILL AT LARGE. LONDON, September 11. The Australian Press Association learns that British columns in Central Kurdistan defeated the tribesmen, indicting considerable losses., but the ringleader, Shahan AgnA, is still at large. A small body of Turks is stirring up trouble around Lake Urunyah. Emissaries from Damascus have arrived in an endeavour to raise the Kurds against the British.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AUSTRALIAN INCAPACITATED SOLDIERS. MELBOURNE, September 13. Latest figures show that 12,000 soldiers are totally incapacitated, including 464 mental cases.

GENERAL STEMS STALIAN KSMG'S REMUNCIATBON. CROWN PROPERTY AND NATIONAL SALARY. ROME, September 12. In the Chamber of Deputies Signor Nitti (Premier), by the King's command, introduced a Bill ceding the bulk of the Crown property to fighting men and reducing the civil list bv 3,C00,000 lire (£118,758). —Reuter. TURKEY'S STRAITS. HYPOTHECATING CROWN JEWELS. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 12. (Received Sept. 14, at 5.5 p.m.) The Porte is negotiating with British financiers for a loan of eight million Turkish pounds, pledging the Crown jewels as security.—A. an-d N.Z. Cable. HOLLAND AND THE SCHELDT. A MORE REASONABLE SPIRIT. PARIS, September 13. (Received Sept. 14, at 5.5 p.^pi.) Holland is disposed to be conciliatory regarding revision of the treaties of 1839. It is hoped that there will bo an earlv under.rtandkig on the basis of freedom of navigation of the Scheldt for Belgian vessels, even for warships, and the destruction of Dutch fortifications.—A. and N.Z. Cable.