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IG. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER AND STEVEYON. Public Auctions- THE Undersigned bas received in-

structions to sell by Public Auction.

DX

MONDAY, May 26, 1919. commencing at 11 am.

at E & G godowns of the Hongkong: Kowloon Whari & Godown Co., Ltd.

(ro ACCOUNT OF FEN. CONSERNED)

150 tons Round Mild Stool Bara..

'Assortment as under :-

10 tons 10x à".

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40 ' è "

14

10" X 93,39 ***

30

40" 13/18.TM*

18

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40' IR "

40" x 12

3

40'

9/16

Terus Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer

Hongkong, May 21, 1919.

CD:

THURSDAY May 29, 1918, commencing as 9.15 p.m.

at No. 3 Patel Vilse, Top Flat, (Kowloon),

Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue); On view from Wednesday the 28th

instant.

Term:-Gish on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, May 24, 1913,

FRIDAY, May 30, 1919, commencing at 243 p.m.,

at Meirion No. 5, The Punk,

A Large Quantity of Vainable Household Furniture, comprising —

Teak hatstand with bevelled mirror, teak ball table, writing table, bookcase, Marble top octagonal table, Leather hovered armchairs, Lacquered tempora, teak screena, Gramophone, Copper con scuttle, Curtains, Pictures, Wall Plates, vases and ornamenta,

+

etc., G12.

Teak extension dining table, dinner waggon with bevelled mirror, glass abinets, ice chest, cupboards, Diacer Services,, Glass-ware, etc.

Teak and Iron bedsteads, teak dress. ing table with heyelled mirrors, ward- rubne with bevelled glass doors, marble top washstands, chests of drawers,

etu,

AINO

etc..

A Fine Selection of Fine Chaton Blackwood-ware:-Curio cabinet and atands, lady's desk, side table, armi- Howor chairs, Battles, jo table, staods, teapaya, cake stands, etc.

And

Asutity of Maiden hair ferns in te und plants in pots..

Un view from Thursday the 29th. intact.

Catalogues will be issued,

Terms: Cash on delivery. "

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, May 22, 1910.

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DETAILS OF THE MURDER.

have happened in Afghanistan, if it GERMAN'S HOARD OF GOLD. had not been for the attitude of the Moulvis, it is impossible to say. The fact, however, is that when the body

Mr. S. Ingleby Oddle recently held bf Habibulla Khan reached Jellalabad The bald announcement of the, the Moulvis refused to bury it until an inquiry at Westminster with re. murder of His Majesty Habibulla his successor had been appoint- ference to the death of Heinrich Khan which was sent to India by his ed. Nasrulia Khan with the help Adaigh Hayn, aged 81 years; a boot- brother Nasrulla Khan is gradually of the Commander-in-Chief faced maker, who was found dead in his being supplemented by details which this difficulty by proclaiming him! room at Great Chapel street, Soho.

may be regarded as trustworthy. self Amir after frightening

the

The history of the crime as I am. Crown Prince. Inayatulla Khan, iuto The old man's son stated that his able to reconstruct it. is as follows. acceptance of his claims. At the father was a German. He had never In February His Majesty the Amir same time Nasrulla Khan announced been naturalised or interned, and went on a shooting expedition to a that the pay of the army would be had supported himself by working? place near Laghman Camp, not far raised from Rs. 12 to Rs. 16 a month. from Jellalabad. With him, according Having this followed the old pre- in his room for twenty-one years. to custom, was a large retinue of cedent for making his claim secure, A police sergeant who was called exalted officials, including his brother Nasrulla Khan probably intended to in after death stated that in an Nasrulla Khan and Nadir Shah, the return to Kabul, where as he knew, old tir. box he found thirty-eight Commander-in-Chief of the Afghan he would. be most likely to

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The coroner emptied the box on

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Army. The party was encamp'd in meet with oppositión which sovereigns. one of the Amir's gardens where unless crushed at the pulser might

there was no cause for apprehension, drive him from the throne. Whatever to his table, and said he had not though the usual steps were taken to his intentions may have been, he was seen such a sight for years. He told protect His Majesty. The royal not quick enough or clever enough

The Son: Yes, I will do so. I have got five children, and each would like one of the coins. Can I give them one each?

The Coroner: I cannot advise you. You had better ask the 'bank officials.

tent was guarded by sentries, but to prevent a counter-plot, His conduct the son that it was legal to hoard in spite of that precaution, one had proved revolting to certain friends gold. and advised him to pay the Ahmed Shab, an Aide-de-Camp to of the murdered Amir who were able sovereigns into a bank. His Majesty and brother of Nadir to approach the late Amir's third Shah, was able to exfer the tent at son, Amanulla Khan, at Kabul and night and to blow out the brains of to persuade him to proclaim himself the Amir with a revolver. On leaving Amir, and at the same time to de- the text Ahmed Shah was seized by nounce Nasrulla Khan and the Com- a sentry but immediately released on mander-in-Chief, Nadir Shah. The the arrival on the scene of his brother, army was the first thought of Am-

Medical evidence was given that the Commander-in-Chief. It will be anulla Khan as it had been of his remembered that in his letter to the uncle and he, therefore, announced de ith was due to natural causes, and Viceroy Nasrulla Khan said the that the pay would be raised not to the coroner certified accordingly. murd had been committed by an Rs. 16 but to Rs. 20 a month. Hav. unknown assassin. That statementing done this Amanulla Khan was in the letter is all the more open to able to effect the arrest of all the suspicion, if it is correct, as I believe conspirators at Jellalabad, including soldiers drawn from a number of it is, that Nasrulla Khan, ether Nasrulla Khan and the Commander-regiments, and within were His awakened by the tumult or called by his retainers. arrived at the scene of AN ATTEMPT WHICH FAILED. the murder shortly after Nadir Shah

The tale of conspiracy, however, is had got there Nasrulla Khan may not yet complete. Inayatulla Khan, of course have been told that the the eldest son of the late Amir, had murderer had escaped and that he friends who did not despair of him in was Governor of Kabul during his was being pursued, and in that case spite of the way in which he had father's absence on hearing the news his apparent apathy about finding submitted to the pretensions of of the Amir's death,, summoned the. the criminal would be explicable. Nasrulla Khan. The most influen garrison and drawing his sword took However that may be, it is alleged tial of these friends was Hussein, a vow in public not to sheathe it that all that Nasrulla Khan did was the Revenue Minister, who tried until his father's death was avenged. to order that the late Amir's body to raise a revolt in his favour. Nazurallah at Jellalabad was placed should be taken to Jellalabad for This attempt at third coup d'etat in close confinement, as was also the burial.

RIVAL CLAIMANTS FOR..

THE THRONE.

in-Chief.

Majesty in one section, while in the other were four or five page boys who took it in turns to watch, accord. ing to the practice of His Majesty.

The third son of the Amir, who

severe

came too late, though the astute Commander-in-Chief and his family! minister appealed to the avarice of and all his kin and they were: the troops by offering at the outset taken to Kabel in chains from The series of incidents which, to double their pay, Hussein was Jellalabad. The chains were ex followed these events is hardly rivall speedily arrested, deprived of all his ceedingly heavy weighing well over a hundred pounds and the horses ed by various episodes in the history Possessions and beaten, and his dis of the Roman Empire in which the Brace was emphasized by his being had a

task. in drawing death of a monarch, from the time led round the streets of Kabul on a uphill these prisoners and their of Claudian onwards, was generally donkey With that medieval episode heavy chains. About half-way, how followed by attempts to purchase my informants narrative ends, and ever, whether out of compassion for the precarious loyalty of the Prac. for the moment there is no authentic the prisoners, or the ponies, is dat torian Guards by donatives. There news of how the new Amir is faring known the chains were ordered to be is more than one parallel in the in the state to which he has been removed. The Commander-in-Chief pages of Gibbon to what happened called by so strange a sequence of and his family are now in confinement In Afghanistan, parallels showing events.

and a new man has been appointed to how rival claimants to the throne

the office by Amanullah Khan. would outbid each other in The Englishman to-day published

The new Amir is a young man of attempts to win the support of some details of the murder of the about 26 or 27. He has never been He was the army by, increases of pay late Amir and the events that led up outside Afghanistan. and by the invention of indulgences to the succession to the throne of educated at home by a private tutor. and emoluments which, in the opinion Amanullah Khan third son of the He has an active brain and keen in- of the provincial youth, might com- late Amir in the course of which it telligence and given good ministers, pensate the dangers and hardships of is stated that the Amir Habibulla he should give Afghanistan many a military life. Whether this would slept in a large tent well guarded by years of peace and prosperity.

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