SECOND EDITION MOSLEM IMMIGRANTS
RUSH FOR AFGHANISTAN EFFORTS TO CHECK TEEM FAIL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. . Received August 19, 10.40 a.m. DELHI, August T7. Efforts to check the flood of Indian Moslenia into Afghanistan have temporarily failed. After the Amir had issued, instructions agamst the influx, baroed wire barriers were erected on the frontier, but pilgrims, numbering ten thousand, rushed them and threatened to tight an Afghan regiment that had i ecu Jiosted to prevent ingress. Eventually the Khalifat representative was allowed to pass, and he secured permission for the remainder of the pilgrims to pass, but further batches will bo forcibly resisted. Pesha war is in a state of excitement. Pilgrims throng bazaars and are causing chaos and confusion.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160732, 19 August 1920, Page 7
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124SECOND EDITION MOSLEM IMMIGRANTS Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160732, 19 August 1920, Page 7
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