"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٧‎٤] (٣١٠/١٥٢)

he lost his way and entered Afghan territory.
The Sarhang, after recording his statement,
released him.
On the 22nd of March, the Amir spon
taneously proposed to Mr. Dane that the
dispute between Afghanistan and Persia over
the boundary near Musabad should be settled
by a British arbitrator.
Kandahar .—Three Hazara Maliks arrived
in Kandahar late in February, and were
granted a private interview with the Governor.
Next day the Governor personally restored
to them some lands between Kandahar and
Chahar Dewar, which had been confiscated,
and evicted the Afghans in possession sum
marily and without compensation. He also
proclaimed that in future all Hazaras would
be treated as Afghan subjects, and that those
now held as slaves by Afghans could be redeemed
on payment of the cost of their maintenance.
For this purpose the Governor, under the
orders of the Amir, paid the Maliks an advance
of Bs. 11 , 000 .
The Afghan authorities are doing every
thing in their power to induce Hazaras in
British territory to return to Afghanistan.
Kabul .—Early in March a notice was
posted on the Kotwali gate, informing the
people of the proposed publication by the Amir
of his new rules and regulations under
Muhammadan law, and introducing a system
of election of representatives as his advisers.
On the 6 th March, Sardar Haiyatulla
Khan, the Amir’s second son, left Kabul for
Badakhshan, to which province he has been
appointed as Governor, accompanied by various
officers, who will be subordinate to him.
Mr. Thornton, the tamer, who had gone to
England to purchase machinery for the Amir,
has now returned to Kabul. He has taken his
wife with him.
It is reported that Sardar Muhammad
Yusuf Khan, on his return to Kabul with Sardar
Inayatulla Khan, was shocked to find the
ascendancy which Sardar hiasrulla Khan and
Abdul Kuddus had obtained over the Amir. On
the 15th March, Mr. Dane informed the Amir
that His Majesty’s Government had decided to
accept his draft Treaty for the continuance of the
engagements made with his lather. Ihe Amir,
after consultation with his Councillors, express
ed his pleasure, and Mr. Dane thereupon gave
him a copy of the draft for signature, and
suggested that His Highness might have it
engrossed in triplicate on parchment and fix a
time for signature. The Amir promised a reply-
on the next day, and on the 16th sent the draft
with a new heading and certain verbal modi
fications, to which Mr. Dane took excep
tion. The Amir then explained that his
Treaty had been prepared in abstract, and that
he wished to enter in it a definite promise