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25. Reference Diary No. 17, paragraph 10. Muhi-ud-din Maqsum was tried
on the 10th June, and shot oiitside of the Gakshan Gate of Bokhara.
26. Faizullah Khoja (paragraph 18) was chosen to go to Moscow to represent
the Bokharan Republic. He refused on the plea of illness and Mirza Salim Beg
Was sent instead on the 13th June.
27. Guzar, 16th e/wne.— -Heavy fighting about Shahr-i-Sabz, which place
the Russians again occupy. The rebels are at Yaka Bagh.
28. The rebels attacked the Russians at Darband, when they found they
were not advancing on Baisun. They drove them from Darband back and out
of Chashma Hazifan, and re-occupied the Russian trenches at the latter place.
Five hundred Red Troops deserted to the rebels.
29. Fresh Russian troops are arriving at Guzar in batches of 4,500 daily,
and are distributed between the Baisun and Shahr-i-Sabz fronts.
30. The Russians captured 4 of the advance guard of the rebels, two of whom
were Afghans armed with German rifles.- The Afghans were sent to Bokhara
under escort.
Samarkand.
31. June 15th. —Supplies are getting short, and wheat crops are bad and
will yield very little. A similar report comes fn m Jizak.
32. The inhabitants of the villages near Samarkand asked for military pro
tection as the rebels were sacking their villages. Russian troops were sent, who
proved to be far worse than the rebels, as during house searches which were ordered,
the troops took everything they could find.
33. On the 10th June 2,000 Russian troops with guns and machine guns
left Samarkand to attack the rebels. Heavy fighting is going on so near the
town that the sound of the guns can be heard.
Tashkent.
34. June 16th.—Five hundred to 600 Muhammadan troops are being sent
to Russia daily, and are replaced by Russian troops from the north, who are
sent on to Bokhara and the Afghan frontier.
35. On the 14th June, at a meeting held in the public garden, an order from
Trotsky was read out saying that the whole of the workmen of Russia should
take up arms against those opposing the Soviet, and that men would be enlisted
in all parts of Transcaspia. Recruiting commenced at once, and all men from
16 to 40 years were forcibly enlisted.
36. It is said openly in Tashkent that 5 divisions of Red Troops are being
sent to Ferghana, Bokhara and the Afghan and Persian frontiers, the forces
sent to Bokhara and Ferghana were to squash the rebels, and then proceed to
the Afghan and Persian frontiers.
Ferghana.
37. Khojent, 20th June. —Supplies are still decreasing, and human flesh
is being eaten freely. Refugees from Russia have been sent back, but there are
4,000 from Andijan and Marghilan, amongst whom typhus is raging.
38. The rebels are better clothed and fed than the Russian troops, and their
number is increasing, as the Russian troops desert, and the inhabitants of Ferghana
are all going over to the rebels. The Russians are forcibly enlisting all able bodied
men in order that the number of rebels can be kept down. Recruits are sent to
Tashkent.
39. The rebels entered Andijan on the 10th June, but were driven out on
the arrival of Russian re-inforcements. Fighting continues near Andijan, and at
Namangan and Marghilan. .