THE TROUBLE IN INDIA.

Hastings Standard, Issue 413, 31 August 1897, Page 3

THE TROUBLE IN INDIA.

A BIG FORIE NECESSARY TO COERCE THE AFIUDIS. TREACHEROUS SEPOYS ASSIST THE REBELS. 200 TRIBESMEN KILLED AT THE LANDI KOTAL FORT. *\fHE ORAKZAIS TRIBESMEN IN GREAT FORCE. (Per Press A »>■»<■{ati-n.—C<>).»/ri<jht.) Calcutta. August 30. It is estimated that six brigades will be required to coerce aud disarm the Afridis. Five thousand tribesmen, mostly Shanwaris, are guarding the Khyber Pass. The dissensions among the Afridis arose over the division of b^oty. Captain L. C'. Gordon, of the Punjanb garrison battery, stationed at Kohat, has been despatched with a force to relieve Sumana. He has orders to force Kohat Pass. Details of the capture of the Landi Kotal fort show that the Afridi Seooys, stationed on the wall, exchanged greetings with their rebel clansmen outside, and then treacherously opened the gate of the fort from ■within. In the fighting which followed 200 tribesmen were killed. The Afridi Sepoy 3on leave at Tirah belonging to the Punjaub Infantry, loyally rejoined their regiments. Further details of the fighting at Ladakai state that Lieutenant-Colonel Adams, of the Staff Corps, under heavy fire, attempted to save Lieutenant Graves, who was wounded, in attempting to save whose body Lieutenant M'Lsan was killed. lie displayed great bravery, facing a party of swordsmen rule-handed. The Orak/.:;is tribesmen gathered in the vicinity of Fort Gulistan extend and hold the country for a distance of two miles. Many women and children are in danger at the hill sanatorium at Ziaret, near Kelat, a town and fort on the Tamak. Sydney, This day. Sir Edward Braddon, who is an authority on India, in a interview said he never regarded the present position with any great alarm. Something of the sort had always been going on as long as he had known India, and there was more reason why it should go on now because we had been extending our borders. Roads, railways and forts had been established where formerly the tribesman had it all his own way. He did not see any present danger of the trouble spreading to the British Indian Army.