Afghanistan, by the way has figured very largely, in the news during the past week. First there is the ease of Dr, Sauer, a German professor who is to be tried shortly. n the Afgian Courts for the shooting of an Afghan, In this cone nexion the German Consulate Calcutta has issued a denial of the charges made against Dr. Sauer i the Afghan press and made a long statement of what, it is claimed, are ths actual facts of the ease, The Afghan wcrount states that" Dr.
Was proceeding from Jalubad motor eye lo when at) Khurd onl he came upon a horsenv stop his Dr. Sauer, it is alleged, refused and beckoned to the m to xet out of the way. This the rider was unable to do, whereupon Dr, Sauer fired his revolver, hitting the Afghan horseman in the back. It ig further alleged that, despite the fet that one of the' official members stood security for the a tendance of Dr. Sauer should he be required by the police, that the German Charge D'Affaires had assisted him in of attempt to escape. The German version flatly den this account. The horse of the Afghan horseman, it is stated, shied fat Dr. Sauer's machine and throw its rider who was slightly injured in the head whereupon De. Sauer, feeling himself the innocent cause of the accident, stopped his machine and after having apparently pacified the man who was very angry wiped the blood away from his head.
Suddenly the man jumpeil to hi fect and with a profusion of words endeavoured to gain some ground in order to aim his rifle at the doctor. It then became a life, and death struggle and in self-defence the German drew his revolver and in the struggle which followed this went off hitting the Afehan in the back. Dr. Sagur then went straight to the German Legation in Kabul and reported the matter. As regards the charge against the Charge D'Affaires of assisting Dr.
wer to escape this is also denied. It is stated that Dr. Sauer left the Legation against the Charge's advice and that when his absence was discovered the Charge D'Affaires side throughout, contrast, Glasrow High School F. P. had 2 narrow escape, - only beating Stewartonians by a single point. Selkirk, though putting a good fight, finished % points be-lind Heriotonians. Kelso is. still going strong in the Border tourna ment, and beat Melrose by 15 to Tu the Association Learue, Collie are well in front in the race for the flag, hut they were lucky to heat Raith Rovers, hed off Queen's Park, to piled' on! th, winni and St, ended with!
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Sauer was found on the road sick of fever. "The car was stopped by the Afghan authorities who took Dr. Sauer forcibly from the custody of the Charge D'AMtairss.
Altogether things are getting pretty lively in Afghanistan, In a speech delivered by him at a Durbar held in Dilkusha castle the Amir of Afghanistan gave an ace count of his recent tour in Kanda-har, and the crusade he had carried out as the result of what he had discovered there. Apparently the police administration was so corrupt that after an investigation it was found necessary to imprison the Commandant and Superintendent of the jail for five years whilst the head clerk of the police office was dismissed. His Majesty also found the educational system unsatisfactory. He hus, therefore, ordered that there should be no separate shools in Kandahar for Hindus and Moslems, except for theology. Speaking of this reform he said, "Hitherto, the shools for traders, Persian" speaking people and Hindus have been separates This separation causes disunion the nation, Everyone who lives in the land of Afghanistan is an Afghan irrespective of the religion he professes or the sct or class to which he belongs, and there is no distinction among Afihans. His Majesty has also introduced a sys tom of conscription for the army. It is feared that if the Amir pro-coeds too fast with these wholesale measures the vested interests may organize themselves against him, leading to repetition of the Khost revolt, Nevertheless, thix crusade is extremely significant as an ample of the spirit of the renal sauce in the life of nations throughout the east and Far
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