{"book":"adl0973","page":67,"text":"driving out the rebels and managed to occupy\nthe hill. Having lost that commanding\nposition, Bacha thought he could not keep\nhis own, and under cover of night escaped\nwith his men to join Sayed Hussain, who\nwas by now absolute master of the Northern\nProvince.\n\nCoup D'etat.—The royal army was glad\nto find the field deserted next morning. No one\nsuggested or thought of pursuing the enemy\nand finally disposing of them. They let\nslip the opportunity and Bacha was allowed\nsufficient time to prepare himself for a\nsecond attack on Kabul. The government\nrealized its folly a week later. Aeroplanes\nwere sent to bomb hostile villages and heavy\nItalian guns commenced the bombardment\nof the Northern Province from the aero-\ndrome but with little success. In spite\nجانور وحش کننده of disquieting reports, the King yet hoped\nto hold his own, till on a foggy night,\nHamid Ullah, Bacha's younger brother,\nرخنه شکاف effected a breach in the royal lines and\nforced a general retreat. When intelligence\nwas brought to Amanullah Khan of this\nunhappy event, he realized that his days were\n\n38","chars":1079,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00067.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/67","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/67","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."}}