AFGHAN ATROCITY
STUDENT SLAYS KING’S SON,
SOVIET PLOT REVEALED
(Received 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, June G
Gaining admission to the Legation library, an Afghan student, Kemal Syee, fired five revolver shots at the Aghau Minister, Sirdar Mohammed Azziz Khan, eldest son of the King of Afghanistan, and wounded him in tlie lung, from which he died in hospital. Svee was arrested.
The “Daily Express” Berlin correspondent says that, following the murder of the Afghan Minister, the police are piecing together clues pointing to the existence of a world conspiracy by Russian agents, in conjunction with Afghan exiles, for the overthrow of the present Afghan Government, which is regarded as being too pro-British, and to restore ex-King Amamillah, who is a friend of the Soviet. Besides murdering the Afghan Minister, Syce shot and seriously wounded a [fellow Afghan student, who is a j nephew of the Minister, and who, when he saw Syce's revolver, threw himself at the Minister in an attempt to save him.
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Northern Advocate, 7 June 1933, Page 5
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