FOURTH KING IN FIELD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 575, 30 January 1929, Page 11

FOURTH KING IN FIELD

MAY HAVE AMANULLAH’S SUPPORT NEW MOVE IN AFGHANISTAN (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Tuesday. A special correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” at Peshawur says Ali Ahmed Jan, brother-in-law, and formerly a supoprter of Amanullah, who was once Governor of Kabul, has been proclaimed Amir of Afghanistan and will immediately march upon the capital from Jagdalak. Ali’s supporters are the Shin wans and other tribesmen at Jagadalak, which is situated near Jalalabad. One report says the march on Kabul has commenced. Possibly Amanullah will support Ali in his attempt to seize the throne. ‘‘BRITAIN’S HAND” BLAMED FOR AFGHAN TROUBLES COMMENT IN GERMANY Times Cable. LONDON, Monday. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” states that in spite of the available Information, the German newspapers, almost without exception, blame Britain for the troubles of Afghanistan. In the first place the papers accuse Britain of having dethroned Amauullah for his pro-British brother Inayatulla. In the next place they have accomplished the remarkable feat of blaming her for Baccasakao’s coup. The correspondent says Colonel T. E. Lawrence continues to be the pet aversion of the anti-British organs The “Kreuz Zeitung” says Colonel Lawrence told the hereditary Princes they would disappear without leaving a trace unless they rejected Amanullah. The “Vossische Zeitung” declares that though Colonel Lawrence has gone, Britain's wheels revolve as smoothly as ever. A statement has been issued by the German Foreign Office deprecating these attacks, and pointing out that the charges are unfounded. However, only one newspaper has published the facts, adding that the reports current throughout Germany have emanated from Russian sources. It Is regrettable, says the correspondent, that whenever anything happens in the East up goes the cry, "There is Britain’s hand.”