AFGHAN ROYALTY

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 7 May 1928, Page 5

AFGHAN ROYALTY

VISIT TO RUSSIA > i •fper Press Association —Copyright) MOSCOW. May 4. ® The Riga correspondent ol the ■xchange Telegraph Agency reports ,t|iat the Soviet officials are experiencing considerable difficulty in military and political discussions with King |HM. Tchitcherin, accompanied by MV< oshiloft and other Commissars, out•gi„.a draft Russo-Afghan military alliance, whirl) King Amanuilab firmly Objected. M. Kalinin, hanquetting King Ama•toillali. emphasised that the Russians and Afghans were both Asiatics, s King Ainanuilah. replying lengthily referred to his visit to Western Europe, and eulogised Western culture which he is determined should inspire ■ie reforms in Afghanistan. ® King Amanullah’s unmistakable ivp Busal to participate in the anti-British movement caused the Soviet, for the Rresent, to abandon the ceremony of ithe presentation to the Red Army o. forty-five aesoplanes, the result of |M‘Our Answer to Chamberlain" fund, . which was intended to develop ant,fJriti.sh sentiment. ■ King Anianufiwh placed a wreath r.n tcirib of Lea»n.