AFGHANISTAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1919, Page 5

AFGHANISTAN.

"POWER PASSING FROM AMIRr MORE HOPEFUL iPROSPEOT, Received May 27, 10.45 p.m. Peshawar, May 24. Evidence is accumulating that power in Afghanistan is passing gradually into the hands of Sales Mahomed, com-mander-in-chief, belonging to a Nurani noble family. He was a trusted confidant of the late Amir, and, although he finally joined Amanullah,, he is acquitted of complicity or knowledge pf the murder of This fact'is important because, in spite of the Afghans' predilection for violence and crime, the Amir's murder and the subsequent execution of an innocent man, were the cause of indignation in Afghanistan, and even the Border Pathans seem to have been horror-struck. The adherence of Sales Mahomed alone kept Anranullah on the throne. It remains to be eeen which of these planned the invasion of India. Both seem, to *"""■. hMMnjjMMBMHMOMHI

By Telegraph.—Press Association. ~> Invercargill, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Sim, James Graham Ohing, 20 years of age, pleaded guilty 'to charges of breaking, entering, and theft. He •was ordered to come up for sentence when called on, and remain in the Salvation Army Home for five years. •