New-York tribune., 1897-08-25
BY The AFR1D1s.
WAR AGAIN IN KHYBER PASS.
. np,rrsH FORT TAKEN AND BURNED BY
THE REBEI TRIBEsMEN.
.>,o-,,rp MORT ArrA.KED AT TIE SAME TIME
HOSTILE NATIVES swARMING TO ARMS
PREPARATIONS OF The BRITISH
COMMANDERS To PUT DOWN
A Rig REVOLT.

,o,aor Aur ol-An official dispatch to-day
,-o,, Sin,,a announces that Fort Maude. in the
Ehvher Pass ha, been captured by the Afridis
o..r desperate ightng. The garrison. when
was composed Of native levies known as the
Khvher Rifles. retired with the loss Of three men.
The A,ridis afterward burned the fort.
The fate Of Fort Ali-Musjld, which was stimuli
.aneously attacked by the Afridis. is not known
A dispatch from Bombay says there is an un-
confirmed rumor in circulation there that the
Arridis have attacked Fort Ali-Musjid with great
determination. The garrison made sortie III
-uu force endeavoring to disperse them. but met
with q desperate resistance. and lost three hun
dred killed The remnant Of the garrison then
abandoned the post and made its way to the sta
ton on the Lowragt.
TIE garrison Of Fort -Musjid was composed
q, Afridis. with Afridi officers. II. as one re-
port says they died lighting desperately. II may
he regarded as proof Of the continued loyalty Of
the Afridis in the Indian Army.
The attack on Fort Ali-Musjid was led by
Mir Bashir Of Tirah. the high plateau which is
the summer headquarters Of the Afridis and the
Orakzls
Mfr Rashir is a wen-known frontier chief. In
$780, during a period Of similar discomfort, he
unclaimed himself King OF Tirah and began to
raise and drill an army. fput nt DtVdnle uHPoP-
ular through his imposition Of taxes. and his in
fuence gradually melted away.
II is admitted even in official circles that the
news from India is of the gravest description
Ali those who are familiar with the situation at
tach the greatest importance TO the rising Of the
uarlike Afridis who are estimated to muster
o. 600 fghting men, The Afrds. however only
form a part of the insurgents the British must
put down
The scene Of the rising has the Khyber Pass
for its centre. The plan Of the British COM
manders is to draw the insurgents to the vicinity
Of Jamrud which is strongly fortified close TO
the Indian mouth Of the pass, having Peshawur
and Kohat for bases. and where the British
number about 11000 men.
The policy Of the Afridis is 70 tempt the Brit
,sh into the hills and spurs Of the pass.
Fort Maude is a small stone fort overlooking
the road four miles up the pass from Jamrud
Fort All-Musjid is five and half miles fur
ther up There the pass is forty feet vide.
DEFIANT ATTITUDE OF THE REBELS.
4 dispatch TO The Times" from Snla. dated
Tuesday evening. says:
The Afridis have not ventured upon active
hostilties to-day but have remained in the hills
about Khaibar. where for the present they
practically safe from attack. Notoriously the
vainest of the Pathan tribes they had the
dacitv 10 suggest the terms under which they
voula agree to di-perse 10 their homes These
were the withdrawal of troops from Swat
and from the Samana range the surrender Of
all the Afridi women living within our border
and the revision Of the salt regulations They
do not seem to realize that their rising must in