MID-EAST AND BOLSHEVISM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16841, 13 September 1920, Page 3

MID-EAST AND BOLSHEVISM.

AFGHAN AMIR OVERTHROWN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. DELHI, Sept. 12. Neivs has spread throughout Central Asia that the Bolsheviks iiavo occupied Bokhara, overthrown the Amir, and forced him to fleo. They also imprisoned all Afghans in Bokhara. The news is considered of great importance in the Moslem world, and all eyes are now turned to Afghanistan,’ where the attitude of the Amir is regarded as Uncertain.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MESOPOTAMIAN OPERATIONS. LONDON, Sept. 11. The War Office announces that a strong column of Indian troops left Bakuba' to operate around the Persian railway. Another column left Ivizilrobat, and will operate towards the first column. Two other columns converged upon Shahrahan, which was relieved without resistance, resulting in the release of Airs. Buchanan, the wife of a British officer, and her companions. The object of the expeditions is ...to clear the railway into Persia, and to bring the Persian camp at Keriud, where British women and children' are refuging, into touch with Bagdad again. The Indian Government has accepted the offer of the Maharaja of Kupurthalia to send his infantry to assist in the operations in Mesopotamia.—Reuter. . E EINFORCEMENTS FROM INDIA. (Received Sept. 13, 8.30, a.m.) DELHI, Sept. 11. It is officially announced that three more British infantry battalions and seven additional Indian regiments, mostly Ghurkhas and Baluchistan infantry, should be dispatched to Mesopotamia by the middle of September.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.