THE FRONTIER WAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9140, 8 May 1908, Page 5

THE FRONTIER WAR.

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Calcutta, May 7. The battery of artillery is returning to Peshawar.

It is understood at Simla that the British are evacuating the Khaibar Pass, under orders from England, and this decision is being much discussed at Simla.

As early as March the Afghan authorities on the frontier informed the Ameer that they had inadequate forces, 1 also that the Afghans were joining the Mohmands, 500 out of 1500 of the Militia deserting with their arms and ammunition.

Some of the contingents who attacked the British at the Khaibar Pass, came from Tezin, 35 miles from Kabul.

Colonel Willcocks returns to Peshawar to-day. The forces are retiring oh Ali Musji and Peshawar. Two of the mountain guns remain at Landl Eotal.

1 LADY DOCTOR’S^;OPINION.

Received May 8, 8.28 a.m. London, May 7.

Dr. Winter, the Ameer’s lady doctor, interviewed in London, explains that Habbibullah Khan is distinctly friendly to the English, but unable to strongly repress tribesmen displaying anti-English proclivities, owing to plots against him by his brother Nagrulah. Dr. Winter is confident that the Ameer absolutely favours the Anglo-Russian agreement, but that he has not signed it owing to outside pressure.