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answer, "Myself and the members of my family have resolved to serve the mother- land at this critical moment. Our only aim is to re-establish peace and to extinguish the fire of civil war now ablaze, which if it last longer, will, we are quite sure, ulti- mately ruin it and deprive it of its prestige and independence." During his short stay at Bombay, the Marshal had a very busy time. He published some pamphlets containing his views on the Afghan problem and sent these to different quarters of Afghanistan, asking his country- men to abstain from the bloodshed and civil war and to settle their differences by calling a Jirgah, to which representatives from all parts of the country should be invited. In a certain meeting at Bombay, he openly declared his policy in the following words: "My object in going to Afghanistan is to ask my countrymen to give up this inter- necine warfare and settle their differences amicably by means of a Jirgah, in which they might elect a wise and energetic man from among themselves as their King. I am neither against King Amanullah Khan 81 F