San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28
NEWS FROM THE FRONT.
British Troops And Natives
Warming Up.
THE NATIVES, HOWEVER, LACK
COHESION IN ACTION WHICH
IS WORSE FOR THEM.
Some Genuine Fighting In Progress
With One Side About As
Much At An Advantage
AsThe Other Tele.
graphic News.

London, Aug. 2S.-1ne latest IRON
tier news is that the Afridis are medi-
tating a night attack upon Jamrud,
where everything is in readiness to
meet them. 1t is also reported that
Il large and threatening gathering of
the Orazais has taken place near Fort
Gulistan, ON the SANTANA range. The
lcOmmandant at Chaman has asked for
lreinforcements.
1t is probable that pending offensive
operations by the government forces
a blockade will be enforced against
the Afridis and OrakZais, who are
largely dependent upon India for their
food supplies. This, it is believed,
would compel them to come to terms.
The military authorities suggest that
after the tribes have been punished
the occupation of a single fort called
China, in the Bazaar valley, V5uld
bind the Afridis hands and foot for
ever, since they would be obliged to
pass by the walls of that fort every six
months when immigrating from the
valleys to the hills or vice versa.
The Kukihels, who have held aloof
from yihe yebelliUh, number 5000 fight
ling men.
The Times Simla correspondent cites
as an instance of the lack of cohesion
in the plans of the frontier tribes the
fact that, while the Afridis have dis
persed to their homes, the 0rakzais
have begun to move. A party of the
latter crossed the Ublan pass, six
miles from Kohat, and attacked the
Mahmudzai post, which was held by a
company of native infantry and the
border militia. General Biggs, COM
Imanding at KOhat, issued from that
place with a field battery and two
companies of Scottish fusilliers and
native infantry. The Orakzais retired
to the Ublan ridge, where they were
shelled by the battery. The infantry
then stormed and captured the ridge
with only casualty. The government
troops occupied the ridge for several
hours, but as the tribesmen were in
full retreat, the force withdrew to the
plain.
Col. Richardson, with a flying col
umn at Hangu, learned on Thursday
that post on the Saman range was
being attacked. He at once sent
force of native infantry and a section
of the Derajat mountain battery to re-
inforce the SANTANA garrison.
The latest reports are to the effect
that firing has been heard in the di-
rection of the post, so there is little
doubt that this attack will be repealed
as was the one at Ublan.
This rising, the correspondent says,
the necessity of moving
large force with view of attacking
Tirah.
Three columns of probably two bril-
gades each are being organized and
other operations on the frontier are
being postponed meanwhile.
So far only six Sepoys from Lundi-
kotal have arrived at Jamrud. They
that they had been disarm-
ed, and it is believed therefore. that
that three hundred and fifty members |
IF the Lundikotal Rifles have been |
1iSarmed by the attacking Afridis.
A dispatch from Bombay says that
the Mad Mullah of Haddah command
ID the Afridis who have just captured
he British forts in the Khyber pass,
which, the dispatch adds, the natives
viii now keep sealed up:
TELEGRAPH LINE CUT.