Saiyid Mir Alam Khan, once Emir of Bokhara, a Croesus whose fortune was £35,000,000 in gold coin, and a man who ruled 1,250,000 people with absolute power, is now a poor exile on the outskirts of Kabul, i This interesting personage recently despatched an envoy to the League of Nations at Geneva, pleading for help to regain his kingdom, and revenge against the Bolshevists, who drove him from his domain and stole his treasures. A Soviet commissar now rules aver Bokhara, and the hoards in the mighty treasures have long since been sent to Russia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21215, 22 December 1930, Page 14
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