ON THE INDIAN FRONTIER. AMEER OF AFGHANISTAN ISSUES AN ORDER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1908, Page 7

ON THE INDIAN FRONTIER. AMEER OF AFGHANISTAN ISSUES AN ORDER.

By TeloffiiJib.— Press As«oolfttlon.- Copyright. CABUL, 14th February. The Ameer has forbidden Afghan tribesmen to assist tho enemies of Great liritain, which, ho points out is in friontUy alliance with Afghanistan. | Tho Ameer, who visited India some months ago, is, according to .Air. Angus Hamilton, who recently wrote an almost monumental work on Afghanistan, an amiable man, "and Afghanistan is not a country where amiability ig a paying trait." He has not the sagacity and force of character which enabled his father to rulo over "'the most turbulent race under tho stars," bub ia nervous and capricious, and much under the influence of the priests and his brother Nasr Ullah Khan. Nasr Ullah, who is Commander-in-Chief, is a masterful man like tho late Ameer, and is said to be himself inspiring to the throne. It was Nasr Ullah who secured what My. Hamilton describes as the comploto discomfiture of the Dane mission, and he is evidently strongly anti-British. However, the Ameor has a subsidy of eighteen lakhs (£120,000) per annum' from tho Indian Go\-ernment, and that is n matter worth, considering.