AFGHANISTAN.
• EX-KING HABIBULLAH REPORTED KILLED. |HBm t**m MaociATwif—»t cucmtc ratae**.*-* -co mnnj DELHI, Xorrabar 4. Ptoiiawar rrportt *t*tn that tx King la&ifcnUah was mestod by Souther* Prsvtacc tribesmen, fel'O dragged Habilulkil mad his eompmalow* from the fort, tlnw ii»»m into the most, aa>i then shot Ike*. fHabibalTah. otherwise known 33 lkMtfc*-I-Salt»o. was recently deposed Ami tie Afg.has Throne by Nadir Kka.ll after ke had usurp#*! it on the flight of Anwslll.la.il. Habibnltah, wb« bad a fair faUowiag, perpetrated maay eroeJtue while in charge in Kabml. Hoait*4* of people were* seeretly killed Vffftfai the citadel, while Ah Ahmed, AanaallaJ) '1 brother ta law. wm blown I* flecee with a gun. On the fall of Eafcttl, Habibullah was first rep«rted to lav* been capture*! and then t-> have over the frontier.]
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19769, 6 November 1929, Page 11
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