CABLE NEWS.
(Reuters Special Despatches to the Mail.)
Candahar Disaster
DETAILS OF THE ROUT.
1,200 Killed and Wounded.
Calcutta, 3rd. Further details regarding the attack on General Burrows’ brigade by Ayoub Khan’s horde ot Afghan horsemen
show that the rout was complete and very bloody. Twenty British officers, 400 British troops, together with 800 friendly natives, were killed and wounded in the rout.
CHINESE WAR PREPARATIONS THE FRENCH OCCUPATION.
CHINESE PIRACY.
Cooldown, Wednesday.
The Eastern Australian Alail Company’s steamship Normanby arrived from Singapore with Torres Straits mail. She brings the following items of Eastern news ;
Chinese preparations tor war with Turkey continue unabated. Prince Kung and the Viceroy of Kan Sn still maintain their ascendency, and there is reason to believe the warlike feeling is undiminisbed at Pekin.
French troops to the number of GOOO will occupy Tonquin, in Cochin China, in September. Piracy is rife at the present time in Chinese waters.
TURKISH WAR PREPARATIONS. MASSING OF TROOPS. Constantinople, August 3. The Turkish forces in the districts of Epirus and Thessaly have been increased. to the extent of 50,000 troops,, in view of possible hostilities with Greece; INWARD SUEZ MAIL. King George’s Sound, Wednesday. Arrived, the P. and O. Company’s steamship Mnhoa, with the inward Suez mail, dated London, July 2.
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Patea Mail, 5 August 1880, Page 3
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