RISING IN INDIA.
A BRITISH FORCE ANNIHILATE^' Press . Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.
Calcutta, March 30. Ghookkas to the number of four hundred 1 and seventy and eight British officers, commanded by a Commissioner from Assam, were destroyed while attempting to quell a rising against the Rajah of Maniput. ; * r
The Commissioner was summoned to Durban to secure the arrest of the rebel chiefs, and the following night the camp was attacked,' but was successfully defended for two days, when the supply of cartridges became exhausted. The force then scattered.
A few of the fugitives have reached Assam, but it is feared that the remainder have been massacred.
A fresh expedition from Assam has been dispatched against the rebels.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8529, 1 April 1891, Page 5
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