HOW AMANULLAH SAVED HIS THRONE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 7

HOW AMANULLAH SAVED HIS THRONE

Walked Kabul With Rifle ALMOST FRIENDLESS IN HIS OWN CAPITAL AMERICAN BRIDE’S STORY.

United Press Association—By Electri* Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, Jan. 2. A graphic story of the Afghan revolt is related by Mrs. Isaacson, an American on her honeymoon tour, who was in the French Legation at Kabul, bhc states that 30,000 rebels first attacked Dakta and then Jalalabad, wheie Afghan troops joined them at the instigation of Mullahs. After several davs’ fighting the rebels retired to the mountains and the Afghan forces wore given a banquet to celebrate the victory. During the niglit the rebels returned, surrounded the Palace, captured the whole force until guns and ammunition, and burned the Palace.^ When the rebels advanced on Kabul, the King lost his adherents and called on an old and trusted regiment. When Baechasahhoo, a bandit leader offered to command, the King accepted, but the bandit with 12,000 men later attacked the capital, calling himself the King of Kabul. Thousands of city folk responded to Amanullah’s call for volunteers, but as soon as they received guns and ammunition, disappeared to their own homes. Many joined the rebels. Amanullah then took a gun and walked the streets and called on the people to follow him. One of the rebel leaders and men captured by the troops were executed and their heads carried on bayonets in view of the rebels. A British ’plane was shot down by the rebels, and the pilot narrowly escaped. An Afghan ’plane, after bombing the rebels, crashed in flames, and the pilot perished. The British- Legation was wrecked under the continuous lire of tho ‘two forces for six days. The Kabul streets were full of rebels' bodies, decapitated by their comrades in order to prevent recognition. There were also heavy losses among the troops. Mrs Isaacson was wounded in the arm. Saved From Kabul BRITISH GOVERNMENT THANKED' FOR ITS AID. RUGBY, Jan. 2. Representatives in London of tlic foreign States, the women and children of which have been evacuated by British aeroplanes from Kabul, have formally or informally conveyed to the British Foreign Office their gratitude. To-day the Italian Government, through Count Rogeri di Villanova, its Charge d’Affaires in Londan, has formally tendered its warm thanks.