Flagrant Breach of Promise and Attempt to Seize Bokhara The following is an extract from a letter of an official' of the Amir of Bokhara, dated Kabul, January 21, 1928.
Some time ago the Bolsheviks removed from Bokhara the representative of Afghanistan, under pretence that his presence there was unnecessary and that the affairs of the Afghan government in Bokhara must be managed by the Afghan Consul-General at Tashkent. Thus the Bolsheviks are reverting to the former state of things, when Bokhara was deprived of the right of direct relations with other countries. And yet in the preamble to the treaty of March 4, 1921, between Soviet Russia and the Republic of Bokhara we find the following "The Russian Socialistic Federative Soviet Republic has unreservedly recognized the complete independence and self-subsistence of the Soviet-Republic of} Bokhara, with all consequences resulting -from such a recognition, and for ever renounces the rights that had been acquired, in re spect to Bokhara. by the Russian Besides, arti@le 8 of the treaty of; February 28, 1921, between Afghan-stan and Soviet-Russia reads as follows The High Contracting Parties recognize the real independence and freedom of Bokhara and Khiva. whatever form of government there might} exist, according to the wish of their nationals."
Now, where are "'independence, self-subsistence and freedom?" And where is the right of the people of Bokhara to choose their! form of government?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.