AFFAIRS IN INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11335, 31 July 1897, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN INDIA.

SOME IMPORTANT ARRESTS.

EXCITEMENT OF THE NATIVES. [Per Press. Association.! CALCUTTA, Jxtet 29. Colonel Meiklejohn was al)le to repel a tribal attack at Malakaxtd, and will assume the offensive when reinforcements arrive. The tribesmen are poorly armed. The Tilaks newspaper declares that Q-od did not give foreigners a charter to rule India, Two brothers have been armited at Poona. They were wealthy merchants, and had long been leaders of secret movements. Tbe prisoners’ property has been attached by the Crown, The natives are intensely excited over the arrests, and the native papers describe them as more cowardly than murders. ' Further severe fighting has occurred at Malakand. The British forces lost thirteen killed and forty-three wounded, while the Ohitralese had a hundred killed. The garrison is now short of provisions. July SO. Nightly attacks are being m ade, on tbe British forces at Malakand. During the day parties of natives in the ' hills harass the garrison. They have succeeded in burning the British tents at North Malakand, and the camp there has been abandoned. '

The Earl of Elgin, Viceroy of India, is using his power to arrest and deport disloyal persons without trial. This action is causing a great sensation throughout the country. Bail has been refused to Bal Sangahar Tilah.- A Poona editor named Kelkan has been arrested and sent'to Bombay.