DETAILS OF MONDAY'S FIGHT.
AMEER STILL SILENT.
(Received May 6tib, 11.10 p.m.)
CALCUTTA, May 6. TCho result of Monday's has discredited +ih© Sofi Muilali in bis efforts to sroiKe the Afridis. He aoid has followers have returned to Afghanistan.
The fight showed itihat the Atf]gbans "were- quite unable to face artillery. Tl»ir final retreat -mas pcreoipdtate. A shell kilkd throe Mullahs hading in a rivino.
TSk> troope mobilised on the nort&itreat f rontver of India comprise 31 battahons of infantry, 15 Bquadrone of Cavalry, and 64 guns.
LOXDON, May 6. • -The continued silence of the Calbul ' wrthorities regarding the frontier Tajde is viewed -with grave suspicion in Great Britain.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13109, 7 May 1908, Page 7
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