Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — A Clever Kabul General. [ARTICLE]

A Clever Kabul General.

Here is ha extract from the Punjab: "There is fc very fine fellow here, a sort of State prisoner, Daood Shah, the Kabul General who, they sayi * tried to stop the massacre of poor Oavagnari. He is six feet four inches high, and a handsome, 1 Jewish-lookingman,like all Afghan*. The officer in whose charge he is Mings him to the club to read the papers to him some times, for ha is the most interested student Of events, and veryeager for telegrams. His comments on ’ 'Jsaropeai‘> polities are amusing, though it is hard to make hits fsirly understand Radical and Tort, and Russian Nihilism. Still, he Is wonderfully well informed, and a striking contrast for meatw activity and general 'ngor to Indian swells. We wftnt togethim*irr«efipM,»r war game, for he is an enthusiastic soldier, and a great student of battles and plans thereof. We make a mistake in underrating opponents like these. He is eat of it now, or course; bathe freely criticises Gen. Roberts, and points out hfs mistakes, f fTit is a pity to keen a mountaineer like him down herein the*heat We all say he should be sent to Simla, to teach our Commander in-Chief the art of war. These Afghans are a queer folk.! He Is the muuestmannerod man that, ever cat m throat, and yet throatcutting would come as sasy to him « saying his prayers. He five times daily.’’—