THE TROUBLE IN INDIA.
AN ENGLISH MANUFACTURER SUPPLIES ARMS.
THE INCITING DOCUMENT OF HADDA MULLAH SEIZED.
[Per Press Association. —Copyriyht.)
London, Nov. 16. Birmingham small-arm manufacturers are alleged to have supplied many of the Afridi tribesmen with guns. One firm admits sending 800 rifles and a ton of ammunition via the Persian Gulf for mauy months. Nov. 17. The letters of Said Akbar, one of the leading Indian frontier tribesmen seized by the British, includes one from Hadda Mullah, instigator of the revolt. It contains an appeal to the tribesmen declaring that the present is the time to strike a blow for Islam.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 479, 18 November 1897, Page 3
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103THE TROUBLE IN INDIA. Hastings Standard, Issue 479, 18 November 1897, Page 3
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