THE TROUBLE IN INDIA.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 538, 1 September 1897, Page 2

THE TROUBLE IN INDIA.

The Fighting at Laudi Kotal Laudaki.

Heroism of a British Officer,

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Per Press Association.

Calcutta, August 29. It is estimated that six brigades will be requiri-d town and <1 -..rm the Afndis. Five tl7nir*and tribesmen, mostly Shinwaris, are guarding the Kbyber Pass. The dissensions amongst the Afriuis arose over a division o. booty. Captain L. C. Gordon, 'if the Punjab garrison battery, stationed at Kohat, bas been despatched with a force to relieve Sun.ana. Me has orders to force the Kobat Pass.

Details of the capture of Laudi Kotal fort show that the Afridi Sepoys stationed on the wall exchanged greetings with their rebel clansmen outside, and then treacherously opened the gate of the fort from within. In the fighting winch followed 200 tribesmen were killed.

The Afridi Sepoys belonging to the Punjab infantry on leave at Tirali have loyally rejoined their regiment.

Further details of llie fighting at I.audaki state that LieutenantColonel Adams, of the Staff Corps, under a heavy fire, attempted to save the wounded Lieutenant Greaves, in endeavoring to save whose Indy Lieutenant McLean was killed. The latter displayed great bravery, facing a party of swordsmen single-handed. The Orakzais have gathered in the vicinity of Fort Gullistau, and they bold the country for a distance of two miles.

Many women and children are in danger at the Hill Sanatorium, at Ziaret, near kelal, a town and fort on the Tarnak.

Exaggerated Reports.

Rtcei.ed August 30. 6 p.m.

Calcutta, August 90. La*., r reports show that the losses of natives and levies holding the Indian Frontier forts have been exaggerated. The majority of them sufficiently resisted the treacherous overtures and attacks of the rebels to save their good names before eventually joining the Tribesmen. The Orakzais are raiding in the vicinity of Ssmana, and have burned two police posts, a bazaar and a school.