The Native Rebell on in India.
(Per Press Association.) Calcutta, August 31. Later reports show that the losses of native levies holdiug tiio Indian frontier forts have been exaggerated. The majority of tlenn sufficiently re* eisted the treacherous overtures and attacks of the rebels to save their good names before eventually joining the tribesmen. Tho OrnUzais are raiding in the vicinity of Sumana, and have burned two police posts, a bazaar and achool. The military authorities at Simla ordered the British troops concentrated nt Mabnnui not to advance as a great force of Afndis hold possession of Kohat Pbbs. This order countermands one previously given to Colonel L. C. Gordon to force the Pass. Keshftllar, the ediior of the native paper Mahrani, published at Satara, in Bombay, has been sentenced to transpor tfttion for life for writing seditions articles headed •• Preparations for becoming In dependent." Harmalkar, the publisher of the paper, wag sentenced to seven years imprisonment. London, August 31. The Times nays ihe general belief in official oirctes is that the Amaer is not dirtctly concerned in the tribal risings.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 54, 1 September 1897, Page 2
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