File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎539v] (726/1080)

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In consequence of tbe illness of Lloyd George, the Cabinet of Ministers
has not deliberated on the question of relations with the Angora Government.
The Angora Government has handed the British Consul at Constantinople
an explanation of the execution of the Indian, a British subject. The expiana-
tion is considered to be unsatisfactory.
The disarmament of the Fortress of Konigsberg.
Petrograd .—In consequence of the decision to disarm the fortress of
Konigsberg the number of guns there has been reduced from 180 to 22.
The Bolsheviks make a half confession of the existence of cholera in
Trans-Caspia though they do not specify where it is. Certain of their journals
contain directions for personal hygiene and the precautions to be taken to
ward off the disease. In one verses by a local doctor are published wherein
the necessity of boiling all water is emphasised.
The following is a translation of a poster on the question of plague :—
Comrades, men of the Red Army, workmen and peasants of Turkestan—
Beware 1 the awful enemy.
Plague threatens you. Plague, the contagious disease.
Six hundred years ago twenty-five million people were destroyed by it m
Europe.
Rats convey plague. Their fleas communicate it to human beings.
Now plague is among you. It has appeared on your flank—in Persia,,
Do not let it into Turkestan 1
That portion of the railway from Artik to Anenkovo which passes close
to the Persian frontier is not safe from plague.
Help the Soviet Government to fight against plague. Do not allow fresh
passengers to come into your railway carriages on the section Artik to Bahram
Ali.
For them special carriages have been reserved where doctors will examino
them and will not allow anyone who is ill with the disease to enter Turkestan ►
Beware, comrades, of the terrible visitor plague l
Do not allow the Black Death in your midst!
“ Nabat Bevoliutsii, *’ published at Samarkand, June 22nd, 1921.
They have bitten one another.
Moscow ,—In the Far East the White guards of Ossipov and Grodekor
have seceded from Kappelev’s band. The Japanese have disarmed the latter.
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The Summoning of the All-Bokharan National Parliament.
JBokhara.—The Bokharan Revolutionary Committee and the Council of
Chiefs has ordered the second AlKBokharan National Parliament to assemble
on July 15th.
The arrangements confronting the Parliament are : The confirmation of
the Constitution of the Bokharan National Soviet Republic. The defence of
the Republic. Government announcements. The elections and other
matters.
Labour movement in the Near East.
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Tashkent, 16th.—The railway workers have gone on strike in Burma.
Strikes have been organized among the professional unions. The independent
unions of chauffeurs and porters have amalgamated. In Bengal there was a
meeting of local professional organizations. It was decided to form a general
confederation of the Bengal unions with a Standing Committee at the head of
affairs and to conduct an enumeration of all resources accruing to the confed-
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