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AFGHAN BOTHER.

BURNS AND MAUCHLINE.

Tribute has been paid at Mauchline

to the memory of two goed men and true, to John M'Kenzie, the doctor, and Gavin Hamilton,, the lawyer.— (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

who trod the cobbled streets of the old town in the company of Robert a conference of Mussulmans to decide Burns. "My very warta and worthy all questions concerning the com.friend" is bow Burns refers to Dr. munist party and to work in connection M'Kenzie, who figures as Common therewith. We realize it is a matter Sense" in the "Holy Fair." As for of great difficulty to gain these alins Gavin Hamilton, Burns writes of him owing to the small number of Musas.- sulman communists and to Socialism"The poor man's friend in need, not being readily adaptable to Mus-The Gentlemen in word and deed;" sulman ideas, so we must proceed And in the dedication to the first with great caution." Reuter's special edition of the poems, correspondent says Nadir Khan, the To phrase you and praise you, Khost general, entered-Waziristan Ye ken your Laureat scorns; tribal territory through three routes The pray'r still you share still with Afghan regulars and 36 guns. Of grateful Minstrel Burns." Their attacks on our posts are de

For many years Dr. M'Kenzie scribed as fainthearted. They failed was proprietor of a building in the to make any impression. re-

The Back Causeway-now Castle Street- enemy was content with long dis-of Mauchline, and this building abuts tance sniping- It is evidently union the house in which, in 1738, Burns. certain on which side the Waziris" and Jean Armour began their married sympathy lies.

life, Tradition also says. that M'Kenzie had his "doctor's shop" there. The property was recently acquired by the Glasgow and District Burns Association, and it has now

LONDON, May 27. The India Office states that the Government of India telegraphed on May 18 that the Afghan commander in-chief's insolent message was cbviously devised to gain time. The Amir has not replied to the invitation to address the Viceroy through the British commander and the Afghans are continuing offensive preparations along the whole frontier.

SIMLA, JUNE 1. The situation at Parachinar con- tinues satisfactory.

further No action by Nadir Khan is ported at Thal. There are no new developments at Miranshah. Some Mahsud lashkers are reported in the vicinity of Jandola But the attitude of the Bhittanis, in whose country a post is located, is stated to be still satisfactory. Further "south" near Murtaza a squadron of our cavalry pushed back a party of three hundred Wazirs and Mahauds who had ventured into the plains. Twenty were killed and five captured. Several more were wounded.. Our casualties i were eight. There is no change in the situation on the Dakka front. Reconnaissances and foraging expedi tions are carried out regularly by our cavalry. Sistan is quiet. Leading men are volunteering to raise levies there..

SIMLA, May 31

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In part two of the summary of the nothing to indicate that "bere Gavin peace terms for Austria, under the sleeps, whom canting wretches heading the frontiers of Austria," blam'd," and local tradition has it the second sentence should have read that a nameless grave was the "the southern frontier facing Italy lawyer's own wish- The members is to follow the watershed between of the Partick Burns Club, the Inn and Drave on the north and disagree with them, think that however,and few to-day will the Lombardy rivers on the south, the grave of Burns friend should be passing the Col du Brenner and including the Setetten valley in Italy. marked for the benefit of the many That facing the Serbo-Croat Slovene Burns" pilgrims to Mauchline, the state is to be fixed by the principal Brave of one allied and associated powers at a later date. The remainder of part two remains as telegraphed.

BOLSHEVIST WAR.

PSKOFF SPELLS VICTORY.

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"Misca'd waur than a beast. Than monie scores guid's the priest, has mair honour in his breast

Wha sae abus't him."

A white marble slab has now been placed at the head of the burial-place of the Hamilton family.

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Parachinar reports fighting on a small scale at Lakkatigga. Here the Turis are actively assisting us but the presence of Afghan troops near that is causing unrest on the lower Kurram. A tribal gathering from the Khurmana valley made a fruitless attack on a militia post near Sadda. Everything is quiet at Thal. Good reports are received from Miranshah, where the Wazirs appear unwilling to commit themselves seriously un- less supported by Afghan troops. The arrival of aeroplanes there had a good effect. Some Mahsud activity is reported from the Derajat border. Our frontier post at Manjhi, south of Murtaza, was attacked without success. Chitral reports that the Kaffirs of Kamdesh in the Bashgul valley have revolted against the Amiri

SIMLA, May 30. Thal is quiet. The enemy still Occupy the adjacent hills. Aerop lanes severely damaged the enemy camp at Yusuf Khel, four miles above That. Nothing fresh is heard from Miranshah, where the presence of our troops is having a quieting in fluence on the Wazirs and Mahsuds. Firing occurred against our posts on the lower Tochi, notably at Idak.. In

The airmen's arrival saw street an action at Spin Baldak the enemy crowds unequalled since armistice lost 170 killed and 169 prisoners. 200 day. Denee rasses of people held point. They broke out of the fort and fled but up the thoroughfare where Hawker making them ridiculous in the suffered heavily from machine guns descended from his carriage. Mount- eyes of their neighbours who know and cavalry pursuit. The Political ed constables slowly pushed a way the real facts. The result is that Officer has interviewed certain Moh through, completing his journey to many members of Parliament are mand jirgas and good relations are the Aero Club, Hawker himself rid receiving letters from their miner established. The Shirwaris are ing bareheaded on horseback. The constituents, protesting against Mr. returning to Bagh Khurgali, Australians acting as escort to Griere Smillie's absurd distortions. undertaking alter harvesting linked hands and cleared a way by

that a

COPENHAGEN, May 27. MR. SMILIE IN TROUBLE. The Bolshevists offered a tenacious resistance in the fighting preceding the fall of Peko Forty machine- A large body of Scottish miners guns were captured. Pskoff has the are highly indignant at the picture Junctions of five railways and is the which Mr. Smillie painted of their strategical backbone of the Bolshevist social condition. They had griev campaign against Esthonía. The ances other than those of hours capture indicates that a decisive stage and wages, and undoubtedly many has been reached. In further suc matters brought before the cesses on their southwest front the Coal Commission required reform.. Esthonians occupied Stackeln on the But Mr. Smillie overdid things, he Walk Wolmar railway. They captur- used too big a brush and splashed ed Salesmuende on the gulf of Riga about too much. The miners are now resenting the suggestion that they are I downtrodden race, who cannot obtain the necessaries of life, and are so badly housed that they cannot practise the decencies of life. The wives are especially angry upon the latter

- HAWKER'S HOMECOMING.

LONDON, May 28.

say that ic is

COMMERCE IN SIBERIA.

to supply our camps. Landi main, force. Similar scenes of en. Khana has reported number of German and Austrian route from Portland Place, Langham thusiasm were enacted along the whole officers, formerly resident in Kabul, Place, and Regent Street to the club. are now directing the Afghan oper: Dominion soldiers used the lamp

With the approval by the Cabinet ations, with a certain amount of standards throughout the route as Council of the Omsk government of Bolshevik co-operation and assistance. seats. In New Burlington Street the constitution of the Provisional Reuter's special correspondent at Hawker was lifted from his horse Trade and Industrial Chambers, the Peshawar says the Ghilazi tribe is not and carried aboulder high inch by Council of the Congress of Trade averse from the selection of a newinch into the club. Grieve was then and Industry. has distributed to all Amir. Aman Ulla is now described only just arriving at this street: trade and industrial organizations as a young visionary, and a tool of Ultimately he also was carried over instructions concerning the enforce unscrupulous persons. The heat the last stage of his journey. seasonable and the health of the troops excellent.

SIMLA, June 1.*

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Tribal Lashkars continue assemble in Waziristan. Except at certain points voluntarily abandoned, the British post is intact. The

The

ment of the rules of the Provisional Trade and Industrial Chambers. According to these instructions,

HAWKER'S MACHINE SALVAD. the Chamber of Commerce of

ST. JOHN, May 27.

a city in which the Provisional Chamber is to be established,

is required to reckon the number

The liner Sachem has arrived and of all trade and industrial organ-

THE N.C4's FLIGHT.

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Chamber of Commerce. The new Commission is to fix the number of the members of the Provisional Chamber.

Afghan nine-pounders had very little reports receiving a wireless message izations existing in that district destructive effect at Thal, though from the American steamer Lake and to convoke a commission com- the place was subjected to bombard Charleville that she had found posed of the representatives of the

of ment for some days. There is no Hawker's aeroplane in mid Atlantic executive committees these chance of the enemy reaching Bannu and salved the mail aboard the organizations. The number of the Kosat, Our concentrations are aeroplane, and part of the machine members of the new Commission is proceeding rapidly. The Afghan itself, and was taking them to to be determined at discretion of the troops fled at Birkot before a victor- Falmouth, England. ious advance by Chitralis. Kafirs revolt is significant. It shows that the Amir's authority is decaying... The British authorities imposed puni tive measures on. Utmanzai village, twenty miles from Peshawar, where PONTA DELGADA, May, 28. the inhabitants were attempting a Commander Reed of the N.CA dangerous intrigue. All the agitatore started with a cloudless sky. He were arrested. The incident had a declared he would remain in Lisbon quieting effect at Peshawar.

avernight and proceed to Plymouth SIMLA, June 1. on Wednesday morning. The course Regarding Bolshevik activity at from the Azores to Portugal is mark- Tashkent, we intercepted a wireless ed by fourteen destroyers. message to Moscow on April-24 et Kashgar which runs: "Bureau for Mussulman communists was establish-

LEIN'S NUMBER UP.

PARIS, May 28.

ed at Tashkent on March 30. The first aim of this organization is the union of all those who work for the

It is authoritatively declared that communist party. Secondly pronews from Russia indicates that the paganda, issue of literature, and the influence of Lenin is completely ended subordination of Mussulmans to the and there will practically be no op communist party. Thirdly, convening position to the capture of the city.

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