THE ZAKKA KHELS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 5

THE ZAKKA KHELS.

INDIA AND, THE AMEER ; PRESENT POLICY WILL CONTINUE^ ; NO ANNKXATION. BY TELEGRAPH —rRESS AESO'IATION —COPTEIOHI. London, February 27. ' In tho House of Commons Mr. J. Morley (Secretary of. State for India); in. reply-to Mr. Ellis (Liberal), said .the, Government, of India had boen instructed to tako no steps leading in any way towards tho permanent occupation of tho Zakka.Kbel country., He added that tho Imperial ' G'oVeifnmoht" adhered to its frontier- policy of .tho past. decade. General arguments anyreversal of that policy wero particularly strongin the present case. " Tho Timesinterprets the latter remark as meaning a recognition of the. Ameer's, scrupulous friendliness..- ... ; . c .. . TRUCE FOR PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. ',\ TRIBESMEN REINFORCED.Calcutta, February 27. General Sir William "Willcocks has assented to a two d.ays'\ armistice in order to facilitito, friendlies in tho negotiations which are now proceeding. Tho Zakka Khels 'are at IlalWai in-con-siderable numbers. . Armed ■< Afghans and othor tribesmen have joined them. A DISAPPOINTED DEPUTATION. - Some light- on . tho' attitudes 'of' the 'Ameer towards the Indian Government ■ and the frontier States is thrown by a dispatch from'Alia-' habad, dated December 23; A Mohmand jirgah, ov. deputation'of. headmen, "reeelatljf visited Kabul, and requested tho Ameer', to; stop the'construction of the strategic'railway from the small fort of Kachi-Garhi," on' the Peshawar-Jamrud . line,- through'! ' Mohmand territory. The Ameer pointed ; out that. the British Government was within its rights- in, buildings tho railway, and would not interfere with the tribesmen." It .is-said thatwhen the Ameer was in India some discontented parties corresponded with him, seeking; his aid towards a rising against the Indian Government. Towards the close of tho ; tour; the Ameer, it iB further alleged, handed the correspondence - .owr ,to'./tk& ' Government' officials. : ! . ' !