Home & Foreign.

Lake County Press, Issue 787, 23 December 1897, Page 7

Home & Foreign.

Marching from Sherkhel to Barkai General Westmacott’r rearguard had great difficulty in repelling fierce and peisistent attempts to outflank them. Once, when the ammunition pouches were exhausted they were in grave peril until they were replenished. When the column camped on a hillside for the night the tribesmen desperately charged them, almost up to the bayonet point, but the British kept up a withering fire and repelled them. The British lost 60, while the tribesmen’s punishment was the most severe of the campaign. General Lockhart intends to open the Kjber Pass to punish ths Zakka Kehls, and will clear the Bazar Valley down to the lowest of the Bara valleys. William Terris, the well-known actor has been assassinated outside of the Adelphi Theatre. His assailant, who was arrested, is believed to be a supernumerary formerly employed in the theatre. Vladimir Woodseff, editor of an anarchist paper, has been, arrested at the British Museum on a charge of inciting several people to assassinate the Czar. At the end of October 3000 miners

were leaving Dawson City for Circle City, about 50 miles north-west, owing to the scarcity of food supplies. The Governor of French CongOv'discredits the reported disaster to the French expedition at Bahr el Ghazol. The Sultan has ratified the GraicoTurkish peace treaty. The German squadron under com mand of Prince Henry has sailed for Kaiachou,' China. Ihe Emperor took farewell of the Prince at a banquet at Kiel, the occasion being marked with a great naval demonstration.