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13. Turkoman bands are raiding and murdering in the vicinity of Merv. They
retire to the steppes when Russian troops are sent against them.
14. Kushlc, 4th August. —During the past month only two parties of travellers
from Turkistan crossed the frontier to Afghanistan. The first was a party of
Ottoman Turks, and the second the Afghan Consul and his staff from Bokhara. ^
Neither parties were allowed to enter the forts.
15. Afghan troops on the frontier between Kara Tappeh and Chihil
Dukhtaran are said to number 3,000 with guns and machine guns.
16. Charjui, 5th August. —A notice was issued by the Russians on the 3rd
August to the effect that the rebels were defeated and scattered near Bokhara,
and a large amount of stores captured. Some of the rebel -leaders were claimed to
have been captured.
17. Troops and supplies are sent to Kirki and Khiva daily.
Khiva.
18. Petro Alexandrovsh, 28th July. —Fighting continues near Khiva, but the
Russians are still in possession of the town. They are much troubled by the re
peated attacks of the rebels on both Khiva and Khanki, who retire to the desert
when opposed by any great number of Russians.
19. Orders were received in Petro Alexandrovsk that all Russian priests were
to be sent to Moscow, to be tried for protesting against the confiscation of Church
property by the Soviet. A priest who had lived in Petro Alexandrovsk for a number
of vears was sent away with his son, under escort for Tashkent.
Bokhara.
20. August 15th. —Reports are reaching Lutfabad of heavy fighting along the
railway line between Kagan and Samarkand, and also that the Russians had been
badly defeated near Karshi.
21. Khatirchi, 10th August—k fierce battle between the Russians and rebels
commenced 4 miles from Khatirchi on the 1st August, and lasted 6 days, after
which the Russians were defeated and retreated in disorder, leaving many killed.
The rebels were said to number 8,000 and divided into many bands. The inhabi
tants of Khatirchi and neighbouring villages fled to Kermineh.
Samarkand.
22. August 8th.—A band of rebels from Shahr-i-Sabz area got in close ^to
Samarkand' but were driven back by 3,000 Russians sent against them. The
Russian tr^oops followed them to the foothills where they left a detachment.
This detachment was attacked by the rebels and pushed back towards Samarkand.
2,000 troops with 3 guns, 2 machine guns, 1 armoured car and an aeroplane have
been sent from Samarkand to deal with this band. The Russians state that there
are 10,000 rebels in the Samarkand area.
Ferghana.
23. Andijan, 4th August. —The rebels retreated from Andijan to the direction
of Jalaltbad, and fighting is going on between these two towns. The rebels in this
area are under the leadership of Muhammad Jan, with Bahr Din as his assistant.
24. All villages off the railway line are in the hands of the rebels, and they
have destroyed the railway extension from Andijan towards Jalalabad.
Central Russia.
1 25. Samara, 26th July. —A number of Germans who arrived from Moscow
have commenced work on the establishment of arms, aeroplane and wireless
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