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APPENDIX \—contd.
Artillery,—7 Batteries. Each Battery 169 of all ranks.
—
Officer Commanding.
Short of
Establish
ment.
Remakes.
1. Maxim battery of 9 guns .
2. Mountain battery B. L. of
6 guns.
3. Ditto .
Colonel Wali Muhammad
350 to 450
for the 7
In addition a number of obsolete
guns mounted on city walls A
Captain is in charge and 1 or 2
men are maintained to look after
4. Ditto
5. Mountain battery M. L. of
6 guns.
6. Field Battery B. L. of 6 guns
7. Field Battery M, L. of 6 guns
J
* Khan.
batteries.
each gun. There was recently
talk of melting these down. 3
of these guns are at Ghurian
with a Jemadar and 30 men of
the Herat artillery.
Sappers and Miners .—3 companies. Each company 100. Total estab
lishment is about 100 men short.
Ehavanin cavalry .—(On new system.) Said to total 1,500 men of whom
half are armed with British or Russian rifles.
Note.—“ Pahrah ” generally consists of 1 non-commissioned officer and 7 men, but is a most in definite
term.
Appendix 2.
Extracts from the “ Ittifaq-i-Islam ”, Eerat, dated 28th December 1920,
No. 18.
Contents.
1. Announcement of change in Editorial chair of the paper, owing to
former editor suffering from “ pain in the legs”.
2. Repudiation of statements published in the English Press, as pointed
out by the Tehran newspaper “ Rahnama.”
Evidently some English paper had said that Sepah-Salar Mohammad
Nadir Khan had gained so much influence over the Amir that latter is doing
practically anything former tells him. It is now pointed out that “ such is
not the case ” and that Amir is exercising his personal influence over his
people, who are devoted to him, etc.
Paper requests the Tehran paper not to waste time in future, even to refer
to the usual “ nonsense ” one sees in English papers.
3. Various items of foreign and local news.
Extracts from the “ Ittifaq-i-Islam”, Herat, dated 4th January 1921,
No. 19.
Contents.
1. Various items of foreign and local news.
2. A brief article mentions that for some time past now the British have
been publishing in their papers, articles referring to their policy towards
Afghanistan. Public in Afghanistan do not take any notice of such articles
and ignore them, but Persians are likely to believe them.
Editor expresses an opinion that Persian papers are probably forced to
publish British Communiques and articles in their columns, as no decent paper
would willingly insert such nonsense. r