A BLOODTHIRSTY AMIR.
The picture of the terrible Amir, Abdur Rahman, drawn in one of Mr Kipling's poems, was no exaggeration, judging by Mr F. A. Martin's new book, "Under the Absolute Amir." Mr Martin was for eight years erigineer-in-ehief successively to Abdur Rahman and Habibullah, our recent guest in India, and some of his chapters abound in horrors. The dreadful tortures and the savage punishments described are no invention of subordinate officials of peculiar ferocity or depravity. The Amir alone has and exercises the* power of capital punishment, and directs its form. Every important case comes before him, and a good many which we should call trivial. Abdur Rahman made no concealment of his methods; he said that he had an unruly people to govern, and- that terrible examples were the only means of making them peaceful and law-abiding. He told Mr Martin ''that he had ordered over a hundred thousand to be executed since the beginning of his reign, and that there were still oth<3s"who thought his ■ .* r?.~ r " .zj&
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1907, Page 8
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172A BLOODTHIRSTY AMIR. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1907, Page 8
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