{"book":"adl0973","page":198,"text":"in the suburbs of Tor and Speen, and\nlasted for two days. Both sides suffered\nheavy casualties. The Saqaoists were again\nbeaten, leaving a large number of prisoners,\nand plenty of arms and ammunition.\n\nThe Dash for the Capital.—At this junc-\nture the Waziri lashkar arrived, and the\nMarshal thought of making a dash for the\ncapital from a direction which the Bacha\ncould have little imagined. Sardar Shah\nWali Khan was ordered to proceed via\nDobandi to the Logar Valley. He com-\nmenced his memorable march on the 29th\nSeptember. His first objective was the post\nof Khushi, which he had little difficulty in\noccupying. From this place as his head-\nquarters he sent a detachment of some 1,000\nmen to attack the Wagho-Jan Pass—the key\nto Kabul. In the evening the lashkar reached\nthe pass, and attacked the enemy. The\nbattle lasted all through the night, and when\nthe dawn broke, the Saqaoists found them-\nselves surrounded, and had to yield. Besides\nprisoners, a large quantity of arms and\nammunition fell into the hands of the victors.\nThe lashkar returned to Khushi with the\n\n157","chars":1079,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00198.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/198","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/198","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}