Word: kabul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spurred by reform-hating, fanatically religious Mullahs, the rebels again surrounded Kabul on three sides, last week, after having been repulsed last fortnight to a distance of 40 miles (TIME...
...reported from Moscow, where the Soviet radio station is directly in touch with Kabul, that King Amanullah had delegated his Royal powers to a "Council of Fifty," composed of "leading Mullahs and Khans of the Realm." Since these persons would unquestionably revoke all the newfangled decrees issued by King Amanullah after returning from his famed tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23- June 4. '28), joyous Afghans prepared for a new order, "Back to Barbarism...
Expectations that His Majesty's position would quickly become untenable were strengthened by reports, possibly premature, that he had fled Kabul by airplane, established himself in Kandahar and abdicated in favor of his brother Inayatullah Khan...
Shrewd Bachia Sakao, chief of the Shinwaris, had not only seized Mogubala Hill, overlooking Kabul, but had diverted a stream which furnished hydro-electric power to light the city and work the radio. For several days the whole of Kabul-even the legation quarter-was under rebel fire. Eventually the Shinwaris were driven back some 40 miles by loyal troops. Meanwhile Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ulya Hazrat flew out of Kabul by transport plane to Southern Afghanistan where she is especially popular, and besought the citizens of Kandahar to remain loyal...
From the Russian frontier loyal Afghan troops under War Minister Mohammed Vali Khan rushed to succor Kabul last week. Indomitable, they crossed by forced marches the high and snow-capped Hindu Kush, debouching at last upon the plain of Kabul. Throughout the week British army planes from India took off 20 white women from Kabul, mostly British and German, but including one honeymooning U. S. bride, Mrs. Carol Isaacson...