A Frontier Atrocity.
A Hamilton Newspaper publishes some extracts from a private letter respecting the operations against the tribes ou the Indian Frontier which has been received by his parents from Alexander Wheeling, a trooper in the A squadron, Prince Albert's Own Hussars. Writing from Fari Singh Fort on 7th September, Wheeling says: — 'Nothing serious up to the present has taken place beyond a slight skirmish with the enemy. None of our party were killed or wounded, but many in the enemy's ranks were shot and taken prisoners. After obtaining all the necessary information from the prisoners they were taken out to the open and shot by a detachment of the Goorkhas ' To shoot prisoners of war, after first obtaining ' all the necessary information' from them, would be so utterly infamous a proceeding that one can only hope the statement in this letter was made under a misapprehension of facts.— Truth.
She: 'Why, Charlie, what a pile of letters. Billets-doux, I suppose?' He: ' Not at my time of life, dear. Billies overdue.'
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 152, 24 December 1897, Page 6 (Supplement)
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172A Frontier Atrocity. Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 152, 24 December 1897, Page 6 (Supplement)
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