31 MAY 1919, Page 1
The news from Afghanistan during the past week has been
somewhat conflicting, and a rumour of unconditional surrender has not made itself good. But the drift of the enemy has been towards a sudden friendliness. The position of a treed opossum, when it is discovered by a man who, in the American phrase, is " out gunning with a smell-dog," is rather less anxious than that of an Afghan town, full of troops, and subjected to methodical bombardment from the air. The Amir cannot remove his palace from Jelalabad, which Captain Carbery bombed the other day ; and infantry on parade who are smitten from above must be strongly of opinion that some things arc not fair in war.
