Death of the Ameer of Afghanistan

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 43.

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Death of the Ameer of Afghanistan

A REPORT from the East states that Abdurrahman Khan, the Ameer of Afghanistan, died on October 3. As the Ameer was friendly to England, his death is looked upon as opening new possibilities for danger to English prestige in that part of the world. There is a considerable current of uneasiness in official English circles over the possibility that Russia may now seek to push her borders in that vicinity farther to the south, at the expense of England.