SOLD AS SLAVE
FATE OF GERMAN WOMAN WIDOW OF AFGHAN MERCHANT PURCHASED BY GOVERNMENT. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.50 a.m. to-day-. BERLIN, Jan. 14. The Government purchased a pretty Beilin girl, who was a .slave at- Kabul. An Afghan tobacco merchant, Abdulla Khan, married her in Berlin in 1921, and during the inflation period decided to return home, taking his wife and child. He was employed as an interpreter. and they lived happily until the husband diet!, whereupon, the girl was informed that according to the laws of the Afridi tribe, she was her husband’s property and therefore passed, together with his belongings, to his brother. The latter was willing to marry the Berlin girl, but the widow objected, and in accordance with his rights, the brother-in-law sent her to the slave market. In order to rescue her from this fate, a German diplomatic representative purchavsed her.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 January 1927, Page 5
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147SOLD AS SLAVE Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 January 1927, Page 5
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