AFGHAN THRONE
PLAN TO CL,STORE AMANULLAH
EXECUTION OF PLOTTER
(United Press Aaeociation —By Electrio
Telegraph—Copy r igb t.)
CALCUTTA, November 13,
General Gulam Nabi Khan ) Afghan .Minister to Moscow, during ex-King Amanullah'is regime, was executed at Kabul, jfor inciting the tribesmen to rebel against the King, Nadir Shah,
He disappeared after Anianullah’s flight in 1929, and visited Tarsi a, and Germany. He re-entered Afghanistan via India last month, and was arrested, when in possession incriminating documents. He was publicly hanged. The execution of Nabj Khan was carried out yesterday. This 'has frustrated a plot to restore ex-King Amanullah to the Afghan Throne.
Nabi Khan, having been pardoned and allowed to return to Afghanistan oa October 13, he immediately started a secret propaganda in favour of Amanullah, inciting the Charles and other tribes of the Southern Provinces tv. revolt against King Nadir Shaft, who had Nabi Khan watched. Hjs suspicions were confirmed when a caravan of forty camels with ammunition boxes, actually filled with stones, was attacked and the boxes were looted; The tribesmen are known to be anxious for th© return of Amanullah. Nabi Khan, when arrested, declared hi? innocence, but letters were found inciting tribesmen to revolt, which betrayed (him.
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