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CHAPTER XII
PREPARATIONS—II
Gardez and the East.—We have already
noticed that on entering Afghanistan the
Marshal had sent Sardar Mohammad Hashim
Khan to the Eastern Province. It will be
remembered that this province was the first
that took up arms against the ex-King and
that it was mainly through their activities
that Amanullah Khan finally lost his throne.
But once the war lust حرص و جوش of the Afghan is
roused, he cannot easily subdue it. After
the expulsion اخراج of Amanullah Khan, the tribes
remembered their old jealousies and rivalries
and began to fight against one another,
making the prospect of peace very uncertain.
It was at a time like this that the Marshal's
brother made his appearance among them.
He went from place to place, advising them
to give up this internecine warfare and to
combine their forces against the common
enemy of the nation. Most of the tribes
withdrew from the civil war, but some had
been bribed by the Bacha and continued to
fight and thus obstruct the plans of Sardar
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