THE RISING IN INDIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10901, 7 September 1897, Page 2

THE RISING IN INDIA.

OFFERS OF ipiLP FROM NATIVE :'-;; CHIEFS. ' ;. A TRIBESMEN'S ATTACK • '""' ■■'■ REPULSED. • . P. aas Association— By Telegraph —Copyrlebt. Calcutta, September 5. General liockharfc has embarked at Brindisi and is expected to arrive at Bombay on .the 18th inst.- He willreach the front about the time the expedition against the Afridis is ready to start.

Native chiefs from all parts of India have offered tha, services of their troops, in tbe efforts of the Indian Government to quell the revolt of the tribesmen. The Viceroy of India has accepted the services of four infantry battalions and two companies df sappers from the Punjaub. He has also accepted the offers of transport trains from the Maharajahs of G-walior and Jurjur. Three thousand five hundred tribesmen attacked Bajisbkpel, a post in the Kurrasn Valley. After five hours' fighting the garrison was reinforced and compelled the enemy to retire. ' • . . Sydney, September 6. Colonel Kelly, who took pare in the Chitral campaign, is at present on furlough in Sydney. Eeferricg to the present difficulties in India, he says that the rnollahs are powertul factors in tke dispute, but it is an exaggeration to speak of the dispute as a holy war. Such an expression i 3 altogether too comprehensive for what is now takiDg'place. The crux of the situation is with the Ameer. If he is playing fast and loose, then there will be big trouble; but if he is friendly there will not. Hitharto tho task of holding the forts has been practically left to tha allies and levies subsidised by England ; but in f utnre England will have to occupy some of these frontier posts hersalf, and make hgr ipfiaenca felt inland.