SECOND EDITION THE MAHSUD RISING.
BRITISH'TERMS ACCEPTED.
SKEEN'S COLUMN AT KOTKAI. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Zealand Cable Association Received January 3, 12.55 p.m. ' DELHI, Jan. 2. Advices from Kotkai, dated December 29, state that the principal chiefs' at Jancii la and handed to General Climo a document unreservedly l accepting the British te*ms.
Meanwhile., General Skoen's column arrived just south' of Kotkai. Strong detachment's wore sent out'to establish pipquets t.n the. hills east of Kotkai, where the enemy appeared tr. he lodged in considerable force." These picquoting parties worked all clay under the'desultory fire.
Guns have been busy searching the ridge and valleys he-yond. . Intermittent sniping continues.
Kotkai itself iias not yet been entered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1714, 3 January 1920, Page 6
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