AMANULLAH’S ABDICATION.
THREE GREAT FACTORS TO CONSIDER (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Sun Cable). (Received This Day, 8.'55 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 19. Sympathy with the. fallen Amanullah and “his beautiful" and charming
<Juecxi must uot blind us to three outstanding facts dpring his reign, says Michael O’Dwyer in an article to the Dispatch. Firstly, ho usurped the throne from his elder brother Inayatullah after his father’s assassination in which Amanullah’s share had been suspected. Secondly, he made a most treacherous attack in 1919, when Brit- * ish India was weakest owing to the - absence of the best units in prder to Conciliate anti-British Afghans and thirdly, when ho had shaken off British control of Afghanistan's foreign relations he wrought h!s own ruin by a reckless, ill-judged policy.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1929, Page 5
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