KING AMANULLAH
ABDICATION RUMOURED.
IN FAVOUR OF BROTHER.
REPORT FROM PESHAWAR
(Australian Press Association —United Service.)
Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. DELHI, Jan. 14. A Peshawar message states that it is strongly rumoured on the frontier that King Amanullali has abdicated in favour of his elder brother, Prince inayatullah, and lias proceeded by aeroplane to Kandahar.
WITHDRAWAL OF REFORMS. GOVERNMENT - UNDER, RELIGIO US CONTROL. SOME OF THITnEW DEMANDS
Received 11.45 a.m. to-day.
DELHI, Jan. 14. Official news from Kabul confirms the report that King Amanullali has agreed to the withdrawal of his reforms programme. The demands of the Shinwaris, to which the king has unconditionally agreed, means that the Government will now he under religious control. Some of the demands are that priests of the mullah class have supreme- authority, the king to observe 'all practices and customs of the Mohammedan religion. The women, including the queen, are to adopt Afghan costume. Schoolboys are to be permitted to marry; also that people be allowed to show respect for holy men by kissing their feet, and that the- latter’-s advice be earned out as if law.
ABDICATION CONFIRMED
LONDON. Jan. 14
King Amanufiah’s abdication in favour of his brother is authoritatively oonfirmed in London.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 5
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202KING AMANULLAH Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 5
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