EVACUATION BY AIR
WORK OF BRITISH PILOTS
THIS RECORD FROM KABUL
Brltlib Official Wlreloi.
(Received 14th February, 11 a.m.)
RUGBY, 13th February,
Bad weather with snow prevented further cvacuatinu from Knlml yesterday. On Monday four Air Forco Victoria, machines brought fifty-eight passengers to Peshawar, comprising GO British Indian subjects, including 38 women and cliildron, live Germans, including two from the Legation, one Porsian, mid two Afghans.
Sir Austen Chamberlain gave tho following details of tho men, women, iind children evacuated from Kabul by the Eoyal Air Force between 23rd Decombor and 11th February:—British subjects, 216; Afghans, 82; French, 11; Germans, 34; Italians, 4; Persians, 19; Boumanians, 1; Swiss, 1; Syrians, 5; Turks, 42; Unitod States citizens, 1. Tho total was 366, of whom some 280 were women and children.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 11
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129EVACUATION BY AIR Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 11
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