AMANULLAH

left for dead in the streets. It was all very entertaining
for the Kabuli.

Meanwhile the aeroplanes came daily to the landing-
ground, collected their quota of German and French
and Italian and Russian refugees, and returned to
Peshawar.

New Year passed, and the fort still held its own.
Food was short, but Amanullah still resisted the con-
centrated attacks on his domain. Not till the 6th of
January was there any indication of the patience of
Bacha Sachao being exhausted. And as dusk fell, he
decided on a last concentrated shelling of the King's
Palace, a climax to the ten days and nights of steady
battering.

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