Belgrade, Aug. 17.
Scores wore killed when near the city of Agram a freight-train mowed down hundreds of people crowding the right-of-way, their attention being absorbed by a display of fireworks arranged in. connection with the Eucharistic congress for which 60,000 people thronged the city and its environs after night-
This created a bad impression in high official quarters in Angora Yesterday, the Turkish Government again approached the Persian Government, asking it to state within three days whether it was prepared Military circles are confident that it will be possible to cat off the retreat of the Kurdish raid-
After the arrest of two men chared with complicity with Paul Montgomery, " local aviator, who ers and to dispose finally of the was arrested on Tuesday en menace.
Press and public in eral welcome the Government's ener-charge of piloting the aeroplane hich bombed the coal mines in the Providence district of Kentucky Turkish troops against 1,500 rebel to ce-operate in the operations of the Fetie action which, is empha: not disturb the amicable rela-the day before, a small mine was Kurds entrenched on the slopes ions between Turkey and Persia destroyed by afire to-day which Mount Ararat. nce the latter's troops. tioned at officials declared was incendiary an
'Some' Surprise Caused the frontier would in any case is origin. wen The damage is estimated at $50,- have been sufficient to cope with Angora, Aug. 12.
600. the Paul Montgomery when arrested Kuo Min, denied the charge. He admitted troops Turkey's Offer to Persia that he had been Aying early Mon-border and have occupied and been day morning but said this sas ordered to hold all strategic posi Angora, Aug. 14. merely in order to "sober up" after tions on the eastern slope of Moun The Turkish Government has being drunk on Sunday Arrarat which will be used as a dispatched another note to Teheran The Providence coal mit trict has been tern, by labour trou proposing that both countries should ist the fortified positions of th jor_months, The mines were cooperate with each other in squash-Kurds who from there started their closed down in April owing to saga ing the rebellion of the Kurdish invasions of Turkish territory. The Cisagreements but were recently re-tribesmen. announcement says that the Persian opened, The bombs were thrown frontier guards did not offer any The press furthermore indicates near the entrance to the mines at resistance to the Turkish troop: that Turkey prepared to offer G o'elcek on Monday morning when beyond protesting against the vio-Persia territorial compensation for the miners were going to work. Intion of Persian sovereign rights.
Pthe district now occupied by Turkish They caused an uproar but there the latter con-mere no casualties and no dam The action of the Turkish military author ies and its approval by tinue their operations in the triangle was done, Some of the bombs di to. the Northwest of Urumaya the Turkish Government has caused net explode. They were made of across the Eriwan-l joulfa railway. seme surprise in political and dip-Gynamite wrapped up with adhesive lematic circles were it pointed The Persian frontier-guards tape, with fuses attached—Reuter. out that the time limit of Turkey's apparently also pursue the Kurds ultimatum to Persia has not yet 'a must be concluded from a dispatch from Teheran stating that} expired.
However, Persia is not
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