Machine summary:
1 All the illustrations were photozincographed re• productions either of contemporary photographs taken in the country itself" (photos of prominent Afghan officials, groups of the Amir's entourage, views of streets and build• ings in Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Ghazni, Mazar-i-Sharif etc.
A. , they fall, roughly speaking, under the following rubrics : (1) A leading article on some political, philosophical or religious subject ; (2) Home events (View the image of this page) (8) Foreign news ( )( 4) The literary section ( short poems by local poets ; ) represented by (5) The scientific section ( "'!" ~ .
It is in fact the same newspaper under another name and with a new editor at its head, but still the same semi-official mouth• piece of the Government, more especially now of the Afghan Foreign Office, as might be easily understood.
To illustrate by an example what has been said above with regard to the contents of the provincial newspapers in general, I quote the contents of a double number, (8-9) of the Iitihad-i-Mashriqi dated 3rd/7th of the Taurus 13061 ( = 23 to 27th April 1927) which are as fol• lows: The leading article: cc The departure of His Majesty and the journey to Turkistan " (reprinted from the Aman-i-Afghan).
No name of editor is mentioned on its cover, but a small notice on the same informs us that the " Second Section of the General Staff is in charge both of the editorial part and of the manage- ment of the journal(View the image of this page) Up to 1926 the annual rate of subscription was 6 Kabuli rupees.