Native Rebellion in India.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 131, 2 December 1897, Page 2

Native Rebellion in India.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Calcutta, Novemlrer 80. The British have captured Lozaka Pass. December 1 Brigadier- General Oaselee's column has crossed Kobudhara Pass. Large sections of troops are encamped at an altitude of 8500 feet. 'Per 'Frisco Mail Steamer.) A Simla despatch dated October 22nd gives the following account of the assault on Dargin and the gallant charge by the Highlanders. When ]>rigadier General Kempster realised that the British gun fire aided by a mountain battery from Fort Gunistan could not dislodge the enemy he went forward in person to move the Gordon Highlanders and ihe third Sikhs into a fighting line for a systematic assault. Colonel Mathes on the co: utnander of the Gordon Highlanders, addressed his men with this stirring appeal " Men of the Gordon Highlanders, our General says that the position must be tak«n at all costs. The Gordon Highlanders will take it." The men gave a ringing cheer and when the advance was sounded they bounded after their leader with officers at the head. When they came down the slope after a successful charge they were spontaneously cheered by all the other regiments. Many acts of heroism are reported of the rank and file. The total casualties were 134 and th<; Gordon Highlanders lost 29 in the rush through the line of fire.