LOAN FOR AFGHANISTAN.
t j ♦ BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S GIFT
OF RIFLES
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• LONDON, February 24. Tie British Government will shortly announce a loan of £172,000 to Nadir Khan, King of Afghanistan, and also a gift of 10,000 modern rifles and 6,000,000; rounds of small-arm ammunition.
, It is in response to Sir Austen Chamberlain's undertaking, giveft in the House of Gonimons oil January 30th, 1929 (as foreign Secretary), "when lie said if a strong Government were established in Afghanistan, Great Britain was prepared to accord it all possible-assistance in. the reconstruction of the country. This was important not only to trade,- because, sinee the same tribes occupied both sides, one could- not be: disturbed without' an extension of the trouble.
The gesture is not anti-Bussian, nor associated with personal relationship with Nadir . The promise was, actually ftiade before his accession to the throne.. ,
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 11
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145LOAN FOR AFGHANISTAN. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 11
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