{"book":"adl0973","page":44,"text":"city and the cantonment and cut the\ntelephone and telegraph lines, so that the\nCentral Government could communicate\nwith the city only by means of aeroplanes.\nThe Peshawar-Kabul Road was blocked and\ninfested with robbers. It was only then\nthat Amanullah Khan realized the dangerous\ncharacter of the revolt. But he committed\nanother blunder, this time of a very serious\nnature. Instead of putting a strong force\nin the field under experienced commanders,\nhe was content with sending small detach-\nments under inexperienced courtiers, who had\nnever seen a field of battle before and were\nutterly ignorant of military tactics. One\nof these favourites, Mahmud Khan Yawar,\nwas sent to the relief of the Jalalabad garri-\nson. It was his first experience of a soldier's\nlife. He marched as far as Nimla, twenty\nmiles west of Jalalabad, and halted. Numer-\nous messages came from Jalalabad, asking\nhim to march immediately to their help,\nbut he did not stir; such was the lack of\nco-operation between the various officers of\nAmanullah Khan. The rebels, on the other\nhand, although of different tribes, were better\norganized, had superior discipline and their\n\n17 B","chars":1155,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00044.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/44","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/44","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."}}