{"book":"adl0973","page":283,"text":"the balance of Amanullah\nKhan's loan and has extended\nthe period of repayment by\ninstalment from 6 to 8 years.\nThe German Government has\ngiven us 5,000 rifles and five\nlakhs of cartridges and has\nincluded the price thereof in\nthe loan, the repayment of which\nhas to be effected in 8 years.\nAt the same time, about 5,000\nrifles and 50,000 cartridges\nin addition to the weapons\nwhich I have mentioned above\nhave been purchased from\nEngland, the amount in respect\nof which has been paid in cash.\n\nSimilary, we have bought at a proper\nprice from other friendly States\nweapons for Afganistan. The\ntreaties which have recently been\nentered into and which are being\nexchanged or which are under\nnegotiations are as follows :—\nA treaty between Japan and Afghan-\n\n214","chars":758,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00283.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/283","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/283","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."}}