KILLED AT THE HEAD OF HIS MEN

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 10

KILLED AT THE HEAD OF HIS MEN

SEAFORTH MAJOR SHOT DEAD IN ' ZAKKA KHTBL BATTLE. , The taost severe fighting which has yet occurred-, in the Indian frontier war took place on February 21 (says ■ the "Daily Mail"), when , the raiding iZakka Khol, to pimish-whotn General Willooclte.waa operating with '10,000 ins'n, were drive'A out of two positions'" by- the • Seaforth ' Highlanders,: the Khybor'• lii/les, ..tho. 28th Punjabis,' the 53rd and 54th;-Sikhs,' 'ind the 59th Sindh-. Rifles. ' puting t;)\e Ijghtijig - the .Hon.. DoUgltig Fdrbes-Senipill,. D.SvO., brother of. Lord Se'mpill, was-,,shot dead 'While-leading the Seaforths. . . General .'Willcbikc, in'- limking his official report, toys:' 'la Major.''F6rbeS : Sempill. the .Servico faaa '■ lost.ione. ! of its best officers, who was. killed while gallantly leading one of, His Majesty's finest battalions." . Other casualties two Inditm non-commissioned officers and (sight sepoys wounded. ', A very. Severe, blow jwas inflicted on the Zakka Khol. . Goneral Sir Jamea. Willooo.ks went out before dawn with. two. brigades under Generals Barrett . and. Anderson to take the enemy's position at Halwai, -ivhere. the notorious Zakka Jfhel outlaw ,Dadni lives. ' General Barrett's brigade advanced directly up the .valley- south of China, taking and occupying the China heights,. while General Anderson's brigade diverged rptind north of the China Hills'. ■ add debouched through tho/Kotal' Ridgo,immediately north •of Halwai. : ' The two brigades attacked the \ Zakka I Khel . position' above Halwai; tthioh they | t-ook Without , eheok. The 'troops hold this while the fortified, towers at Halwai ,\v6ro blown Up. ' ' An eS-nfttiVo officor in the Indian Army liamod Multiltl,' new a rebel, occupied the hill commanding the .' entrance ,of the eastern BaiSM- plain, but'; the Seaforths, after :,a. twenty-mile ..mai'cb;.,. "streamed up the hill like Jiehtnirig," as the staff . deMribei it, and Multaa fled and has sot) skcu been hfitrd at. *