AFGHAN KING AND REDS.

Shannon News, 8 November 1929, Page 1

AFGHAN KING AND REDS.

MESSAGES EXCHANGED,

PLOT AGAINST NADIR’S THRONE

(Published in “The Times.”) LONDON, Sunday

Though so eminent an authority as the Marquis of Crewe, who was Secretary of State for India for five years, has publicly expressed the opinion that the new King of Afghanistan, Nadir Khan, will be a loyal ally to Britain and an exceient neighbour to India, the Soviet authorities have received with manifest pleasure .an official message from Kabul, expressing the intention to maintain the friendliest relations with Moscow.

(Then 1 are indications in Kabul, however, that Nadir Khan ’is reign may be no longer than that of his two immediate predecessors). The Soviet, says the Riga correspondent of “The Times,” has received a wireless message from the new Afghan .Foreign Ministry, anouncing the election of Nadir Khan as King, and expressing the hope that he will maintain ict.

M. 'Karakhan Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, has replied, accepting with pleasure this friendly declaration, and adding “Afghanistan can count on unwavering neighbourly relations, which the Soviet is ready to develop further in order to consolidate Afghan independence and economic and cultural progress.” NADIR’S KHAN’S SPIES. (Published in the “Daily" Mail.”) One of the greatest myisteries of Nadir Khan’s campaign has been Ins astonishing .knowledge of Bacha Sakao’s plans, but the whole conspiracy can now be revealed, says the Peshawar correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” Bacha controlled the wireless, issuing only information which suited him, nevertheless his big moves were‘known to Nadir Khan through the bravery of three Pathan Legation guards. Apparently they spent an easy life lounging in tlu Legation compounds, but using a private code, almost daily they secretly wirelessed ,the latest Kabul news to Peshawur, where it was picked up and conveyed to am old hermit living in a mild hut, who sent it on to Nadir Khan.

Nadir Khan is now faced with the necessity' of arranging adequate food supplies, As Kabul is poverty-stricken and threatened with famine.

GROWING ANGER,

(Sun Special.) CALCUTTA, Suiul^v. Peshawar messages, declare that apart from the threat by the ex-Kim. Habibullah (Pacha Sakao), who is sti' at large, and is collecting forces witl the object of re-attacking Kabul, N« dir Khan ’s position has been rendered less secure by a Boyali'st plot to over throw him. -Though the "Afghan General has beei King for only a. week, anger again.,; him is growing among ex-King Am - nullah’s old supporters, who openly accuse Nadir of - treachery to the ex King. It is stated that a gruesome discov cry was made when Nadir’s forces captured the Ark at Kabul, the deeon; posed bodies of three Princes of Ama nullah’s family being found in a locket room. It is believed that they wer murdered by Habibullah, as an act o: revenge, before hils flight from the cap i’tal.