THE EXECUTIONS AT CABUL.
(Pall' Mall Gazette.)
The Bombay Gazetto contains a statement so startling as to compel us unwillingly to refer to a painful episode in our • recent' occupation of the Afghan capital. This journal declares that before Mr Lepel Griffin left India ho forwarded a very strong report to the Government of India, concerning the. executions at Cabul. The tenor of this report, if it be correctly stated, will create so profound a sensatjon jn this country as to coppl immediate aqtion on the part of the Government'. Mr Lepel in hib report, the Bombay Gazette asserts; plainly says 11# corrupt (native) subordinate wm trupted by the generals, and that executions wero pompassed by this official, who in most casps suborned evidence, and then himself pressed the gaao against tho unfortunate accused. Sirdars who were suspected of possessing wealth are said to have been threatened' with the gallows, and on pain of execution made to hand over large sums ofmoney, horses and jewelry. No man of substance escaped his rapacity. Ho is—belieyed •to have extorted altogether a fabulous sip froni jiis yiptijns,'! Tjiaj; i| bad enougiii'b'ut therd is Wtse to fulfow? The Bombay Gazetto.' declares' that although Mr Lepel Griffin inoluded in his report specific instances of this official'? ' systematic villiany, and followed them up by a repommendation pouched lrt " thp most emphatic and unqualified terms," that lie should be tried by law for his crimes, the man has not only not been punished, but is actually at this'moment in Government employment, That is to say that this miscreant, who abuaed the confidence of General Roberts in order to employ the gajlows as an instrument of extorting bribes frojp the yanquished foes, is actually at tfiis moment employedlahaTpaid by the Indian Government, 1 holds in its hands full proofs oi big guilt. Although such a Btory cannot be credited) it ought not the I? wle authoritatively refuted. ' . ■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 729, 29 March 1881, Page 2
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319THE EXECUTIONS AT CABUL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 729, 29 March 1881, Page 2
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