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About Two days before his In view of current happenings death the Amir was seen in Afghanistan, the following from Ghalat-ul-Seraj, palace the Englishman of March 24 will Laghman, about twenty-five and no doubt be read with deep a half miles from Jellalabed, by a interest. We are able to publish European engineer who WAS to-day some graphic details of the engaged in work there at the murder of Habibullah Khan, the time. His Majesty alighted from late Amir of Afghanistan and the his motor and entered the apart- events that led up to the succes-ments of the fort in search of sion to the throne of Amanullah lunch. No lunch had been pre- Khan, the third son of his late pared because, as His Majesty Majesty.
had given out that he would be Jellalabad is the winter station following & different route to the of the Government of Afghanis-shooting camp. His Majesty's tan. The Amir B.S a rule visit proved to be a surprise to spends four months of the everybody. Habibullah Khan, year-December to April-in however, wanted lunch, notice this city accompanied by his or no notice, and he asked Ministers of State and others. the two European engineers there Kabul, in his absence, was, in the if they had any lunch to give case of the late Amir Habibullah him. One of the Europeans recited Khan, under the governorship of to the private secretary the his second and third sons who courses that the cook had pre- each held charge for half the spared for them and stated His period of their father's absence. Majesty was fully welcome to Thus February found the late what there was. The late Amir Amir in Jellalad. Here too were sent for the lunch got through it his brother Nazurallah, who was all and then presented the fort- the Naibsuitanat, or Viceroy on junate cook with two sovereigns. occasions when the late Amir The European engineer was, on happened to be absent, and the the other hand, offered his eldest son of Habibullab who was Majesty's thanks and a cigarette, regarded as the Moina Sultanat, which the Amir selected and or the next below in office to handed him from bis case. "Good Nazurullah Khan, though not bye" said His late Majesty as he I shall see necessarily so as regards the took his departure. succession. Primogeniture is you again in three days on my not a law in Afghanistan. It has way back.” been the rule for the strongest to
Two days later His Majesty's seize the throne, but on the death motor passed the European with of Abdurrahaman Habibullah out stopping. The car was shut Khan set a precadent by succeed-in end it appeared to the engineer ing his father which to the West-that His Majesty must be ill arn mind may have conveyed an But His Majesty was dead. The erroneous idea of the law of car was bearing Habibullah succession in Afghanistan. Khan's body back to Jellalabui.
THE TRAGEDY. Habibullah Khan had proceed-
Just His Majesty in one seation while in the other were four or five page boys who took it în turns to watch according to the practice of His Majesty. At about three in the morning a pistol shot was heard to ring out into the stillness of the night and an the Amir's brother and eldest son, rushing into the tent they found Habibullah Khan lying dead in his bed shot through the ear with the bullet passing out of the side of his head.
A PLACE OF ILL OMEN. The name of the place of assassination is explained as one of ill-omen..
Kolla in Afghan means hat or bead, and yosh mears ear. It is therefore significant that Habibullah Khan was at Kolla-gosh shot through the ear, the bullet emerging from the head. The assassination having taken place so far out of town the body was carried four! or five miles on a charpoy to a motor, and then conveyed a distance of about 30 miles by motor-car to Jellalabad, where the remains were, buried in 2 [grave dug, in, the middle of the Golf Course opposite his palace Siraj-ul-Imarat—as tribute, it is said, to His Majesty's affection for the game. But the custom of the Afghans bas been to bury their Kings in the palaces and in the palace grounds. Ab durrahman was buried in his favourite room in one of his palaces. So that it is possible that the body of Habibullah may be removed to Kabul where it will be accorded the usual kingly burial.
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Nazurullah Khan as Naibas- ultanat took charge of affairs after the Amir's death pending; the appointment of a new Amir. If Inaytuliah Khan, the eldest son of Habibullah had any claims they were probably compromised by Nazurullah, for not only did of Habibullah the eldest son
concur in the proclamation of Nazurullah as Amir, but also all the officers of State at Jellalabad, the Commander-in- including Chief of the army and others.
Meanwhile the third son of the father's absence. His time of late Amir governed Kabul in his office had expired but his brother, the second son of Habibullah, had been detained on the journey from Jellalahad to Kabul through. iliness and Amanullah Khan continued in office, until such time as his brother should recover. Meanwhile news reached the latter of his father's death and orders from the new Amir, his
uncle to return to Jellalabad. which he set out to do.
AVENGING THE MURDER.” Amanullah Khan, the third of Habibullah's sons is however, of
a more determined temperament so that when the news of the Amir's death reached Kabul, his first thoughts were not so much for the throne as for the perform- ance of an old Afghan rite, the avenging of his father's murder. Almurder in Afghanistan is looked upon as a family feud, and the members of the murdered man's family vows to avenge the deed sooner or later.
Amanullah Khan rowed in in public. He summoned the garrison of Kabul together and he is said to have drawn his sword and said that be would not sheathe it again until he had found his father's murderer. The soldiers naturally approved for it was but the Afghan spirit and they proclaimed him Amir. There were thus two Amire in ul-Seraj and was on the night of
Afghanistan: Nasurallah Khan camping from the 27th-28th ota-
who as Viceroy had assumed the little place known as Kollagoshigh office after his brother's Heslept in a large tent well guard-
death and Amanullah Khan, the led by soldiers drawn from a num.
third son of his late Majesty who had been proclaimed Amir by ber of regiments, and within were
the soldiers.
Habibullah was a lover of sport and was on a grouse shoot when bis ill-fate overtook him. He had led 26 or 27 miles beyond Khalet- left bis palace at Jellalabad by | motor and proceeded sixty miles gut of that city. The party ac- companying the Amir on the shoot included his eldest son and Naturullah Khan, his brother,
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