LATEST INTELLIGENCE. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.
AYOUB KHAN ADVANCING.
ENEMY STOPPING SUPPLIES.
[by cable.] Calcutta, August 4. — Intelligence lias been received from Afghanistan that Ayoub Khan has advanced to Merkarez for the purpose of attacking the British troops under General Phayre, which reached Chaman recently from the Bolana Pass on his way to reinforce General Burrows at Candahar, but were unable to proceed owing to the disturbed state of the country. It is further stated that Ayoub is sending a strong force to intercept supplies from the Bolana Pass. GENERAL ROBERTS GOES TO BURROWS RELIEF. Orders have been given to General Roberts to march with the Northern Division of the British army in Afghanistan, numbering 10,000 men, to the relief of General Burrows at Candahar. General Roberts has further been ordered to act in conjunction with troops under General Phayre and Sanderman from Bolana Pass, so that the combined forces may operate against Ayoub Khan. It now transpires that the telegraph line between the Cabul frontier was not cut by hostile tribes, as was at first supposed, but was interrupted from some other cause.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3505, 5 August 1880, Page 3
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183LATEST INTELLIGENCE. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3505, 5 August 1880, Page 3
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