THREE KINGS IN THREE DAYS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1929, Page 7

THREE KINGS IN THREE DAYS.

REBEL CHIEF NOW IN POWER AROUND KABUL WATER CARRIER’S SON. Received Mondav, 1 a.m. DELHI, Jan. 19. The abdication of the Afghan King, Inayatullah, is confirmed and the rebel chief, Bacchasako, has been acclaimed King in Kabul. He has’assumed the title of Ilabibullah Ghazi. With a force of 15,000 well-equipped men, he entered the capital on Thursday and Inayatullah and his family, who had been in the citadel, sought refuge in the British legation. Two Vikcrs-Victorin troop-carrying planes left Pcshwar at dawn yesterday and returned in the afternoon, carrying Inayatullah, his war minister, Sirdai Abdul Aziz, other officials and lady refugees. They will later proceed to Kandahar, where Amanulkih resides. Ilabibullah’s rule is confined to Kabul and suburbs. He is a water carrier’s son of a Mohomand tribe. He was formerly a soldier in the Afghan army and once, when going on leave, he was waylaid by robbers. He killed two and was subsequently punished, this making him a bitter enemy of Amanullah. He has assumed the title of Ilabibullah Ghazi to indicate that he has risen to the position now occupied by Kcmal Pasha in Turkey'. This is the second time in Afghan history that a yvater carrier’s son has become King, the first being in the reign of the Emperor Humiyun. Amanulkih ordered the Governor of Kandahar to haul doyvn the Royal Standard, as he yvas no longer King. Amanullah has a force of <’>o,ooo with the support of the greater part ot Afghanistan, while Ilabibullah only holds the hilly provinces in the vicinity of Kabul.