FOURTH KING IN ONE YEAR

Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 20

FOURTH KING IN ONE YEAR

NADIR KHAN AT KABUL TROUBLED AFGHANISTAN (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, October 18. General Nadir Khan, who arrived at Kabul this week, has been proclaimed King of Afghanistan. The fate of Bacchai Sakao, whose forces had been defeated, is uncertain, but he is stated to have surrendered to Nadir Khan’s troops. Nadir is the fourth occupier of the Afghan throne this year. _ Anianullah, who is now in Italy, abdicated in the face of the revolution last year, and his brother Inayatullah, who succeeded him for a few days, was dethroned by Bacchai Sakao, a one-time Afghan outlaw, who proclaimed himself the Amir Habibullah.

Nadir Khan, who is related by marriage to Amanullah, was at one time commandor-in-chief of the Afghan army, and afterwards War Minister. Five years ago he went to Paris as the Afghan Minister, but resigned through ill-health after two years. He emerged from retirement in South France at the beginning of the year, and returned to Afghanistan in March. Prior to the present successful offensive against Habibullah, three earlier efforts had been unsuccessful.