NADIR KHAN

Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 15

NADIR KHAN

AFGHANISTAN'S HEW KING BAGCHA SAKAU HOT YET ELIMINATED Prpe* A viodatian—Bj Telegraph—Copyright DELHI, October‘lS. yielding to the insistent pressure of leading citizens of Kabul, Herat, and Kandahar, Nadir Khan to become Afghan King at the National Assembly yesterday. Nadir was acclaimed king “in view of his epochmaking victory and ‘services to the country and the people.” The Foreign Ministry sent a wireless message to the Afghan trade agent at Peshawar to send allegiance to Nadir,but tho agent refused, stating that the declaration was a flagrant contravention of Nadir’s pledge to support Amanullah. “ Nadir has cherished from the beginning ambitions of gaining the throne for himself, and now he has created fresh trouble.” It is now reported : that Baccha Sakau is collecting the remnants of his forces in an effort to regain the throne.—Australian Press Association. THE DEPOSED MINISTER TO BRITAIN. BERLIN, October 17. Shuja-ed-Dowleli, the former Minister to Britain for Afghanistan, declares that during his absence from London, Yunus Khan, whom he appointed legation interpreter, _ telegraphed regularly to Baccha Sakau, this being an act of treachery. Shhj a, on returning to London, possessed himself of a number of telegrams that Yunus had exchanged with Kabul. One from Kabul asked the Foreign Office to help Yunus to protect Afghan property, including the lapis lazuli, and advised the Foreign Office that an Afghan mission was going from Kabul to Western Europe. Shuja asserts that the British Government turned him out without allowing him to clarify the situation. Yunus to-day replied that the had not communicated with Kabul while Amanullah was in Afghanistan. “When he left I had to reply to telegrams from Kabul to the Foreign Office, but I. did not accept Bagcha Sakau as king. Kabul asked me to prevent Shuja from touching the legation property. I warned Kabul and the Foreign Office that ho was trying to sell the legation premises and furniture and' disappear from the country. I was •• desirous of protecting Afghanistan’s interests, ami instituted proceedings against Shuja. The majority of the ■ telegrams he quotes are false. I indignantly refused to help him to sell the legation property, thereby incensing him. He could not, in the face of my documentary evidence, reply to my charges. I was an official member of the legation before he was appointed Minister.”— Australian Press Association-United Service.