India.
A number of army surgeons have been ordered to proceed immediately from England* to India, hois Eictin, Governor General of India, has seriously remonstrated with the Ameer in connectidri with the assistance given by the Afghans to the Mohammedans in the recent attack' upon the : British forces at Shabkadary specially directing his attention to the action of Gholam Hyder Khan in countenancing the disaffected mollahs. Twenty-fivo thousand Indian troops are being concentrated on the Indian frontier. Itinerant mollahs, referring to the Turkish successes in the GrecoTurkish war, prediot the millennium in Islamisnii . 3?he Ameer of Afghanistan has issued a firman forbidding his subjects to join in the jehad, or holy war* alleged to have been advocated in a pamphlet promulgated by the Ameer. It is believed that whatever the Ameer does he will do secretly, in osder to avoid an open rupture with the British.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1897, Page 2
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146India. Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1897, Page 2
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