"RAID-AND-SCUTTLE."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 192, 8 May 1908, Page 7

"RAID-AND-SCUTTLE."

INDIAN FRONTIER. BRITISH FORCES RETIRING. ARMY ACTING UNDER "'ORDERS FROM - ENGLAND." BY IELEGnAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPrBIQHT. (Reo. May 7, 11.25 p.m.) Calcutta, May 7. A battery of artillery is returning to Peshawar. It is understood at Simla that the British are evacuating tho Khaibar under orders from England. This decision is much discussed in Simla. As oarly.as March tho Afghan authorities on the frontier informed the Ameer that they bad inadequate forces; also, that Afghans wore joining the Mohmands, 500 out of 1500 militia, deserting, with their arms and ammunition. AFGHANS FROM NEAR KABUL. (Rec. May 8, 0.12 a.m.), Calcutta, May 7. , Some of the contingents who attacked the Khaibar came from Tezin,' thirty-five <miles from Kabul.' General Willcocks will return to" Peshawar to-day. His forces are retiring on Alimasjid and Peshawar. Two mountain guns remain at Landi. Kotal. . , . : TRIBESMEN'S SEVERE LOSSES. | ' Calcutta, May 6. During the it Landi Kotal, the 40 Pathans, with great dash, carried a strongly-held crest commanding ■ a British blockhouse. The regiment also," in conjunction with the Munster Fusiliers, captured a series of ridges leading to ' the villago 'of .Kargala, where the severest fighting* occurred. The tribesmen lost three'hundred killed, and as many wounded; at', Shabkadar and Landi Kotal..