AFGHAN REBELLION

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1929, Page 5

AFGHAN REBELLION

KABUL SURRENDERS. NEW KING- DEPARTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 18. 1 News from Kabul indicates that 1 lhihibiilla Khan, also known as Radio 1 Saquao. leader of the Afghan revolt, is now in complete control of the city, the citadel having been peacefully surrendered. Intermediaries, representing both sides, waited on the British Minister, 1 Sir Francis Humphreys, yesterday, and requested him, to facilitate the evacuation hy air of King Inayatiilla, in whose favour his brother Amanullah abdicated on Monday last. It was represented that the departure of Jll- - would have the effect of preventing further bloodshed. Arrangements therefore were made for the British Royal Air Force aeroplanes early this morning to convey limyatti.Ua and members of his suite, including seven ladies, an ex-Ministor of War.- and two brothers of Queen Souriya. from Kabul to Peshawar. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS LOOTED. DELHI, January 18. I naya hullah and mem hors of his family arrived at Peshawar from Kabul, by an African aeroplane in the a fternoon. The report of his abdication is not confirmed. Amanullah is safe at Kanilalir which city is quiet-. It. is likely that lie will accept the Kingship of the Durani tribe, and the natural consequence will be that Afghanistan will lie disrupted into three piovinccs. The rebels have completely occupied Kabul, where they looted and sc' and houses. At present all is well in the foreign Legations in tlie capital. I lie Britishers have sufficient provisions for three months. There is no tear of an attack hy the rebels, but it is likely that all the Legations v ill be« removed liv the Air Force aeroplanes in the absence of recognised authority ABDICATION CONFIRM ED. NEW KING ASSUMES TITLE. (Rece'vod this tlav at 8.80. a.m.) DELHI. Jan. 19. The abdication of tlie Afghan King. Inayatullah, is confirmed, and Baeohasako has been acclaimed King in Kabul. He lias assumed the title of Habihullah Gliazi. With a force of 15,000 well equipped men lie entered the capital on Thursday and Inayalullali and family who had been in the citadel sought refuge in the British Legation, Two Viekcrs-Yietoria troop carrying pianos left Peshawar at dawn yesterday and returned in the afternoon carrying Inayatullah and his War Minister, Sirdar Abdulaziz, other officials and lady refugees. They will later proceed to Kandahar, where King Amanullah resides. ITahihiillali’s rule is confined to Kabul suburbs. He is a water carriers sou of the Mohammed tribe. He was formerly a soldier in the Afghan army. Once when going on leave he was waylaid by robbers, be killed two and was subsequently punished, male- 1 ing him a bitter enemy of King Aitianullali. He has assumed the title of Habihullah Gliazi to indicate he has risen to the position now occupied by TConial Pasha in Turkey. This is the second -time in Afghan history that a < water carrier's son has heroine King, ' the former being in the reign of Em- 1 peror Hnmaynn. ' King Amanullah ordered the Gover- f nor of Kandaha to haul down the ( ißovu! Standard as he was no longer 1 king. Amanullah has a force ol thirty lhi)iis;iii(l. with the support of a greater part of Afghanistan, while Tl.abibullali only holds the hilly provinces in the vicinity of Kabul. THE FALLEN TvTNG. < 1 HTS CONDUCT CONDEMNED. 1 i LONDON, Jan. 20. 1 Sympathy with the fallen King < Amanullah and his beautiful and ; charming Queen must not blind us to three outstanding facts during his < reign, says Michael O’Dwyer, in an 1 article to the “Dispatch.” 1 Firstly, ho usurped the throne from Ins elder brother Tiianyatullnh, after ( his father’s assassination in which Aina, nullah’s share had been suspected. ] Secondly, lie- made a treacherous nl- , tack in 1919, when British India was , weakest, owing to the absence of tlie best units, in order to conciliate tlie anti-British Afghans. Thirdly, when he had shaken off Bri- . tish control of Afghanistan’s foreign ( relations; he wrought his own ruin hy a reckless and ill judged policy.