15 DECEMBER 1928, Page 3

The Afghan Revolt seems to be dying down. It was

reported, and denied, that Jalalabad, a town of some five thousand inhabitants, had been sacked. A Times correspondent describes the spectacle of a number of old men and women standing on the walls of the city holding up Korans and pleading for their homes. Religious frenzy is behind the rebels. The revolt is against the Westernizing and educational reforms of King Anamanullah. They have moved too fast for a country in which it was possible recently for a father to tie his daughter to a tree and beat her to death for going to school. On the whole, however, the King has as much support, or docile assent, as is necessary for his schemes.