"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [ظ‎‎٩‎٨] (٣١٠/٢٠١)

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been moved into the house, and is causing
him great inconvenience. The news-writer
reports that a messenger of his has
been imprisoned. No case has been made
out against the man, but he is believed
to have been asked by the Kotwal to name
the men who are in communication with the
news-writer under the threat of being killed in
prison. The present incumbent of the news-
writer’s post is about to be changed.
A Barakzai Sardar has arrived in Kandahar
from Kabul to supervise the work of the
Governor.
Kandahar .—In January last, the Officer
Commanding, 126th Baluchistan Infantry,
forwarded to the Agent to the Governor-
General, Baluchistan, a petition from Naik
Abdulla of his regiment, asking that pass
ports might be obtained for four members
of his family who wished to proceed from
Kandahar to Quetta. The News-writer at
Kandahar was asked to obtain the necessary
passports from the Governor. The latter
official refuses the passports on the ground
that hitherto passports have not been issued
to families of persons in the military service
of the British Government. The A^ent
to the Governor-General has instructed °the
news-writer to point out to the Governor
that many passports have been previously
granted to families of Afghans servin 0 * in
India, and to express a hope that the Governor
will he able to grant those applied for.
Kabul .—The Amir is said to have been very
well received during his tour, by the people of
Kohistan, whom he has pleased by refusing
presents and by ordering his followers to pay
for everything they obtain for their private
use. The Amir promoted and decorated several
local officials, dismissed others whom the
people complained of, granted the people
some concessions in the way of reductions
m marriage and land taxes, and instituted a
new department for the extension of irrigation.
The Amir held a Durbar at Parman in
itolnstan, to which leading men of the district
uere invited. In his speech His Hig“
remarked that Afghanistan lay between two
strong 1 owers, eaeh of which wished to take
it : le ‘iV? 1 .referred to the objects of the late
Kabul Mission and the settlement arrived at
and added that the Russians were insisting on
the establishment of Russian commercial
firms in lurkestan, and were demanding the
privilege of unrestricted trade with Afghan
istan. His Highness then dwelt 0 ^ the
advantages of concord and union, ur"-i n <>-
the necessity for strengthening the army ancf
referring to the results of the war between
Japan and Russia, compared Japan with
Afghanistan, remarking that in population an
armament Afghanistan^ in no way inferior
to Japan; and that, if the Afghan people were