{"book":"adl0973","page":59,"text":"him with all the necessary intelligence. The\nattack on the capital and on the person of\nthe King and the capture of the public\ntreasury in broad daylight had been thought\nout with such care that nothing but chance\ncould have thwarted Bacha's plans. He\nreached Bagh-i-Bala, a fortified military\nhospital about three miles from Kabul, with-\nout meeting any resistance. He took posses-\nsion of the place without difficulty and\nlarge supplies of ammunition fell into his\nhands, as the military magazine was close-\nby. It was from there that the War Ministry\nreceived a telephone message for the first\ntime, conveying the horrible news of Bacha's\narrival. One can easily guess the consterna-\ntion and perplexity of the negligent officers\non learning that the enemy was already at\nthe door, while they were wholly unprepared\nto meet him. Abdul Aziz Khan, the War\nMinister, was at his wits' end. It was with\ngreat difficulty that he could arrange to send\na few soldiers to check the enemy's advance\nand save the Arg from immediate capture.\nDistressing news went round the city. Bacha\nhad by this time reached Shehr Ara.\nWhile he was passing by the Military School\n\n30","chars":1160,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00059.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/59","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/59","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."}}