News has reached London via the Caucasus from a reliable authority, Reuter's Agency states, according to which, some weeks ago, the Bolshevist envoy at Kabul was authorized to propose to the Amir a formal agreement in which the Bolshevist. Government undertook to furnish Afghanistan with military and financial assistance on a considerable scale. In return the envoy demanded facilities for the Bolsheviks to transport rifles and ammunition through Afghanistan to the tribes on the North-West frontier of India, and for Bolshevist agents to disseminate propaganda unmolested in Afghanistan and to pass freely through the country with propagandist literature into India.
Further demands included the right of the Bolsheviks to establish representatives in Afghanistan, and a written pledge that the Amir would conclude no treaty or agreement with any other State than Bolshevist Russia except with the latter's prior consent. The last stipulation was doubtless intended either to make abortive the negotiations between the Afghan and Indian Governments, or to entrap the Amir into a bert of his neighbour and ce-religionist, the Emir of Bokhara.
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