WARFARE IN THE EAST.
TRIBAL RISINGS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 19, 7.30 p.m. Delhi, Sept. 18. Severe fighting occurred at Khost between the Amir’s troops and rebel tribesmen, resulting in the defeat of the latter. Thirteen hundred were killed. The Royalist leader, General Abdul Hamid, and a considerable number of his followers fell. A second engagement drove the rebels to the hills. A leading Afghan official from Kabul arrived with an offer of generous terms to the insurrectionists on condition that they laid down arms and submitted. Civil war is threatening South Persia. A powerful sheik refused to pay taxes and he gathered a huge force to repel the Government troops sent to subdue him. A pipe-lino of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which runs through the sheik’s property, is endangered.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1924, Page 5
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