AFGHAN REBELLION

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 6

AFGHAN REBELLION

A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). DELHI, dan. 2. A graphic account of the Afghan revolt is related by Mrs Isaacson, an American on a honeymoon tour, who refuged in the French Legation at Kabul She states that 30,000 rebels first attacked Dakta, and then Jalalabad, where Afghan troops joined them at the instigation of the Mullahs. After several days’ fighting the rebels retired to the mountains. The Afghan forces banquetted to celebrate the victory. During the night the rebels returned and surrounded the palace. They captured the Avholo of the force, guns and ammuniion, and then burned the Palace. When the rebels advanced on Kabul, the King, who had lost his adherents, called on his old and trusted regiment, and when Bacchasatros (a bandit leader) offered to command, the King accepted, but the bandit, with twelve thousand meg, later attacked the capital, calling himself King of Kabul. Thousands of city folk responded to King Amanullah’s call for volunteers, but as soon as they received guns and ammunition they disappeared from their own homes. .Many joined the (rebels. King Amamiflah then took a gun and walked the streets and called upon the people to follow him. One of the rebel leaders and his men captured by troops were executed and their heads carried on bayonets in view of the rebels. A British plane was shot down by the rebels and the pilot narrowly escaped. An Afghan aeroplane after bombing the rebels crashed in flames. The pilot perished. The British Legation was wrecked. It was under the continuous fire of the two forces for six days. The Kabul streets are full of rebels bodies decapitated by their comrades iu order to in-event recognition. There was also heavy losses among the troops. Mrs Isaacson was wounded in the arm.