AFGHAN REVOLT.
EVACUATIONS BY BRITISH. <a*ITISH OmciiL WI&ELB£S.) RUGBY, February 13. Bad weather, with snow, prevented farther evacuations from Kabul *<sterday. On Monday four Air Force Victoria machines brought 58 passengers to Peshawar, comprising 60 Indian subjects. including 38 women and children, five Germans, including two from the Legation, one Persian, and two Afghans. Sir Austen Chamberlain cave the following details of men, women. »?nd j children evacuated from Kabul by the . Royal Air Fore© between December j 23rd and February 11th:—British f<ub- i jecta 216, Afghans 32. French 11. i***r- j mans 34. Italians 4. Persians If 1 1 manian 1 Swiss 1. Syrians 5. Turks 42 and United States citisen 1 The total was 366, of whom some "-SO i were women and children. .
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19545, 15 February 1929, Page 15
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