New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-31
The BATTLE OF CANDAHAR.


COMMUNICATION WITH CANDAHAR CUT OFF BY TIE
AFGHANs-REINFoRCEME FROM INDIA AND
ENGLAND TO BE sENT-ABDURRAHMAN KHAN
NEAR CABUL. 800
LONDON. Friday, July 30, 1880
In the House of Commons this evening the Mar
quis of Harrington, secretary of State for INDIA
read q telegram from the VcerOy, of to-
days date which says! General Sandeman
has sent to obtain Information
concerning the Candahar affair." but the
country from Krojak TO Candahar is disturbed, and
the messengers may be ten days before returning.
The forces from the Rahman and Dubrai posts are
retiring toward Chaman-Chold, along the line OF
communication. They have been attacked by the
native tribes, but are holding their own. Assist
ance is going to them from Chaman-Choki. Native
reports say that General Burrows's fight was Sc
vere both sides losing heavily. Several tribes are
reported to be collecting along the Bolan route. but
the forces in Quettah and Pisheen are strong
enough to check them. General Phayre has not
been able to advance, and will await sufficient Ie-
Inducements to prevent the possibility of further
reverse"
1t is stated that arrangements have been made
for the dispatch of four or five thousand troops to
Afghanistan from England within few days. and
that the military authorities are prepared to supply
from England within the next fortnight 12OOO
troops of all arms The Admiralty has signlfied to
the War Department its readiness to provide trans
portation for 10000 men within three weeks The
India troop ships Crocodile and Scraps are under
goln5 repairs and are therefore not available for
service this season.
General Sir Garnet Wolseley came to London yes
terday from the Isle of Wight, after hearing the
news of the disaster at Candahar. telegram was
received at the India Office from the Yiceroy of
India last night dated July 20. which refers to the
dispatch of renforcements from various parts in In
dia. 1t SAYS that a battery of Horse Artillery at
Kurrachee has been ordered up ; one battery is on
its way: the 1st Madras Cavalry on the march,
and the 11th Foot at Bolan and 18th Foot at Kur-
rachee have been ordered up. General Phayre will
receive a battery and a European regiment
from the Puujaub. His field column will
muster three batteries, niue squadrons and
three British and four native battalions. He ex-
pected to be ready in fifteen days. Candahar is
provisoned to the end of October
A Bombay dispatch to The Standard says:
The first train from Jacobabad to the frontier consist
was on point of starting Thursday night Informa
on received by the Indian Government shows that the
military 9Th Of AyOOb Khan has been utterly un
derrated.
AYooB KHAN's CAREER.
Ayoob Khan is thirty years old. He Is the son OF
the late Ameer, Shere Ali, and is afull brother of
Yakoob Khan, with whom he served in the cam
paign of 1S67--'6S which resulted in the restOra-
ton of Shere Ali TO the throne When 1akoob
Khan was recalled from Herat and imprisoned in
1874, AyOob Khan fed to Persia and remained
there until the British invasion drove shere Ali
from Cabul when he returned to IIerat and over
threw Sherc Alps representative. 1t Is stated that
he was angry at Yakoob Khan for concluding the
treaty of peace at Gundamuk. He has since held
aloof from Cabul. His success il likely to make him
the leader of Yaoob Khans party against Abdurrah-
man, and thus render the proposed settlement diff
cult 1t has been favOrIte idea among this party,
since the deposition of the ex Ameer, Yakoob Khan,
to proclaim Musa Khan. his son. Ameer under
Ayoob Khan's prOtectOrate.
ABDURRAHMAN KHAN NEAR CABUL.
The ST. Petersburg GOlos says:
With the accession of Abdurahman Khan rs
Ameer phase of Afghan events terminates. Two
powerful neighbors Of AfghanIstau have stretched
ont 10 each other hands of reconciliation on the
grounds which mad become matter of dispute
only in consequence of the incurable Russophobsm
of Lord Beaconsfeld. The new Ameer owes his
present position quite as much to Russia as to Eng
land
The Times this morning SAYS:
Ayoob Kban's victory Will have the effect OF bringing
Of events In Eastern Afghanlstan. and in the future
settlement OF the country his role VIII necessarily De an
important one.
A dispatch from Cabul says:
"The details of the Candahar disaster have
not yet reached here. All is tranquil here.
H. IL. Griffin the British Political Officer
here will meet Abdurrahmann Khan to-mor-
row. at a camp fifteen miles nnorth of Ca
bul. The British forces here and i'll the neigh
Dor hcod number 10000. A strong division Is
ready to move southwark"
dispatch from Sima saws Abdurrahmann
Khan arrived at Aksarai on the road to Cabul
to-day
The StandorPs Bombay dispatch says it is now
calculated that General Phoyres force will reach
Candahar on the 25th of August. The latest state
ments make BuTowss force 2. 600.
TILE EA ASrERN QUESTION