Indian Trouble.

Opunake Times, Volume VII, Issue 309, 24 August 1897, Page 4

Indian Trouble.

NATIVES MARCHING ON JAMEUD.

Calcutta, August 20.

Later despatches from the Indian frontier states that 100 Swaties were killed in an encounter with the British forces and field artillery. The mobilisation of the Indian army is working admirably. Kbaibar, Kohab, and Kuramon the frontier are threatened by the rebel tribesmen.

Peshawur reports that a body of Afridi tribesmen are marching upon Jamrud, a strong fort at the mouth of Kybcr Pass, 12 miles west of Peshawur, whilst the Orakzias are marching in force upon the Kuram fort, another stragetic position at the entrance to Afghanistan from India, 25 miles south-west of Jamrud, and upon the Samana mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan. The country is crowded by British fortified posts between the Hangu valley and river Host. The wives and children of the officers and men belonging to the remnant have retired to Hangu, midway between Jamrud and Kuram where a British fort is situated.

Calcutta, August 21. Peshawur reports that the outlook on the Afghan frontier is less disquieting. The tribesmen are daunted by the rapid concentration of troops. Twelve thousand have already been concentrated in the valley of the Swat river, 7600 at Tochi, 6500 at Rawalpindi, 12,000 at Kobat and Peshawar.

Miangula and Mianguls, religious leaders of the Swatis, have submitted.