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[By Telegraph.] (Per Hero at Wellington.) THE AFGHAN WAR. FIGHTING IN KYBAR PASS AND AT CANDAHAR. AYOUB [KHAN’S PRISONERS. FENIANS ARMING ON THE CHEAP. RIOTOUS BULGARIANS. AMBASSADOR AND ACTRESS—A SCENE IN A DANISH THEATRE, London, August 24. General Donald Stewart is retiring with bis army to Ulundi. Kybar will probably' be abandoned. An agitation has been commenced in England in favor of the retention of Candahar by the British. Permission has been granted to the Tichbornc claimant to appeal to the House of Lords against the recent decision of the Court on a writ of error. Nobody credits the statement that since his release he has been able to produce evidence that the claimant landed at Melbourne from the Osprey.
August 25. General Phayrc’s advance is delayed by the want of transports. Ayoub Khan’s force is now so increased that be lias been able to detach the Cabulese to watch the troops under General Roberts.
August 2G. At a banquet given at Copenhagen to Sarah Bernhardt, the well-known actress, the German Minister proposed the toast of “ France and Sarah Bernhardt.” In replying she said she hoped the toast included Alsace and Lorraine. Great confusion ensued, the Danes cheering the sentiment. Mons. Theimctcr of the French Legation, then descanted upon the former intimate relations between France and Denmark. Confusion thereupon ensued, and the chairman left the chair. The German Government have directed the Minister to take leave of absence.
Aug. 23. British troops now occupy various strategetic positions at Ivy bar Pass, Between Peshwar and Jellalabad,southeast of Cabul. General Gough is in command of the garrison in the pass. A Tecent despatch contains information of a tight between a strong body of the enemy in Kybar Pass and the British. The enemy was repulsed after a sharp engagement, with a loss of 100 killed, and a large number -wounded. The British loss was trifling. A daring theft has been perpetrated a.t the Military barracks at Banagher, Ireland. The stores were broken open during the night, and a large number of rifles stolen. There is no clue to the persons concerned in the robbciy, but it is generally understood that the thieves are Fenians, and the weapons stolen are intended for aggressive acts of disloyalty.
August 21. The military authorities in Afghanistan are in possession of information showing that Ayoub Khan has ordered a division of his arm}'-, consisting of the Heratese to leave Candahar and intercept General Roberts’ march on the city. News has been received that Generals Primrose and Burrows, made a vigorous sortie upon Candhar and a severe engagement ensued in
which the Anglo-Indian troops behaved splendidly in the face of very superior numbers and inflicted a severe defeat npon the Afghans. The British loss was eight officers killed, and a total loss of 100 men. It is estimated that the Afghan loss is not less than 1000. News has been received of the fate of the prisoners taken by Ayoub Khan, when he surprised and defeated General Burrows’ Brigade. It was feared they were massacred by the Afghans, but Colonel Maclean has communicated the fact that he and the others have been well treated by their captors. General Roberts, by a scries of forced marches has made satisfactory progress towards reaching Candahar. He has now arrived within a shot distance of Dilaghilzai, about a hundred miles to the north-east of Candahar, and he expects to reach Cabul on August 2!). In the House of Commons, in Committee of Supply, obstruction was offered by the Irish members, who combined to
prevent the vote from passing-. The obstructing member.? avered that the police force in Ireland had been employed to arrest unjust landlords in trampling- upon the rights and liberties of the Irish tenantry. They strongly denounced the conduct of the police, and the authorities in connection with recent disturbances.
August 25. Mahomed Pasha, one of the reactionary party in Turkey, who liad persistently opposed all outside interference with Turkish alfairs, and was, some mouths ago, dismissed from the position of one of the Sultan’s advisers, has been again summoned by the Sultan to his Council.
The wool market is weaker and prices show a tendency to decline. August 26.
The physicians attending Sir Charles Dilkc, report that he is suffering from an abscess, and that his gout has not improved. A cablegram from Constantinople states that serious rioting has taken place by the Bulgarians, in the vicinity of Rutschuk, on the Danube. Theriot was quelled by the Roumanian soldiciy but not without terrible slaughter.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2329, 3 September 1880, Page 2
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