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- 1 2 3 Summary of the Administration of Lord Hardinge of Penhurst, November 1910 – March 1916. pp. 93, 94.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Hale, W. (1966). AFGHANISTAN, BRITAIN AND RUSSIA 1905 - 21. pp. 16, 17, 18.
- ↑ Chisholm, Hugh (1913). Britannica Year-book, 1913 -: A Survey of the World's Progress Since the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica.**A wikilink to an article on [Afghanistan] in EB1922 is not available**
- ↑ Yapp, Malcolm; Preston, Paul; Partridge, Michael (1999). British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print: From 1945 through 1950. Near and Middle East. University Publications of America. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-55655-765-1.