THE AFGHAN REVOLT
ROYALISTS DRIVEN TO HELLS.
GENEROUS PEACE TEEMS OFFERED.
Pros* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, September 18. (Received Sept. 19, at 8 p.m.) Severe fighting occurred at Khost, between the Amir's troops and the rebel tribesmen, resulting in the defeat of the latter. Thirteen hundred Mere killed, and the Royalist leader. General Abdul Hamid, and a considerable number of his followers fell. A second engagement drove the rebels to the hills. A leading Afghan official from Kabul arrived with an offer of generous terms to the insurrectionists on condition that they laid down arms and submitted.— Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19282, 20 September 1924, Page 9
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