KABUL EVACUATIONS
SNOW PREVENTS FURTHER EFFORTS
(British Official Wireless.)
Rugby, February 13.
Bad weather with snow prevented further evacuation from Kabul yesterday. On Monday four Air Force Victoria machines brought fifty-eight passengers to Peshawar, comprising 50 British Indian subjects, including 38 women and children, five Germans, including two from the Legation, one Persian, and two Afghans. Sir Austen Chamberlain gave the following details of the men, women, and children evacuated from Kabul by the Royal Air Force between December 23 and February 11: —British subjects, 216; Afghans, 32; ' French, 11; Germans, 34; Italians, 4; Persians, 19; Rumanians, 1; Swiss, 1; Syrians, 5; Turks, 42; United States citizens, 1. The total was 366, of whom some 2SQ rear® iramen and cWlskefij
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 121, 15 February 1929, Page 10
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120KABUL EVACUATIONS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 121, 15 February 1929, Page 10
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