THE AFGHAN TROUBLE
EVACUATION FROM KABUL. GOOD WORK BY AIR FORCE. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 13. Bad weather, with snow, prevented further evacuation from Kabul yesterday. On Monday four Air Force Victoria machines brought 58 passengers to Peshawur, comprising 50 British Indian subjects, including 38 women and children, five Germans, including two from the Legation, one Persian, and two Afghans. ' Sir Austen Chamberlain gave the following details of the men; women, and children who have been evacuated from Kabul by the Royal Air Force between December 23 and February 11:—British subjects 216, Afghans 32, French 11, Germans 34, Italians 4, Persians 19, Rumanians 1, Swiss 1, Syrian 5, Turks 42, United States citizen 1. The total was 366, of whom some 280 were women and children.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20643, 15 February 1929, Page 9
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