The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-30
The fMad Mullah" Wounded III
An Engagement
At Fort Malakand in British
India.
MORE NATIVES RISEN
An Ugly Insurrection Getting
Cglier Every Hour.
Wholesale Arrests Are Planned
at Bombay.

Simla, July 3o.-A dispatch from
Camp Malakand reports another night
attack by the tribesmen last night
(Thursday). The natives fought des-
pera tely for several hours, but were re-
pulsed at all points.
Bonfires had been lighted around the
camp and in the glare the tribesmen
We're easy targets for the British rifle
men.
Many fell and in the light of the
flames the natives could be seen re-
moving their dead. 1t is reported that
1.-The Mad Mu1lah'' was badly wounded
and that several of his principal chiefs
were disa bled.
The British lost one killed and seven
teen wounded, among the latter being
Lieut.. Costello, who was wounded the
second time. He had received a slight
wound during the day attack on We'd
nesday.
The forces of the MulIah had been
augmented by strong gathering of the
natives on the hills to the right of the
British position The theory is that
the Bonerwals have risen.
The situation is now somewhat reliev-
ed by the arrival of reinforcements un-
Ger Col Reed from Newshera.
a Simla dispatch says:
AS the operations against the rebel
ioUs trihesmen will be carried on on a
comparatively large scale all the forces
including reinforcements now en- route
Will be formed into a division of two
brigades, with a complete staff, the
whole under command of Sir Bindon
Blood The first brigade will be COM
manded by Col. Meizeljohn and the sec
Dnd by Col. Jefreys.
London, July 3G.-A dispatch from
Lucknow, India, says that on Saturday
Maulvi Sidayat Rasoul was arrested on
charge OF having insulted Queen Vic
toria and the British government at a
recent meeting of the Moha mmedans
held to congra tulate the sultan upon
his victories over Greece. 1t is alleged
that at this meeting Maulvi declared to
the assembly that but for the sultan's
forbearance the old woman's ribs would
have been broken years ago.
The case was adjourned.
The Daily Nails Bombay cores
pondent says:
The excitement here over the arrests
recently made of Indian agitators is
unabated and rumOrs are persistently
circulated among the Brahmins: 80 or
90 more arrests of important citizens are
imminent.
A dispatch from Bombay says that
the notorious Prof. GOkhlOe, an agita-
tor against the British administration
has just landed here. A crowd of Nah
rattas cheered him upon his arrival.
The English papers will invite him to
withdraw his allegation against the con-
duct of the British soldiers in their eff
forts to stamp out the plague.
Gokhloe is professor in the Deccan
college. He wrote to the Poona papers
accusing the British soldiers of having
violated two women, one of whom sub
Eequently committed suicide
Bombay, July 30.-The editor of the
newspaper Vaibhan, published at
POona, has been arrested and brought
here on the charge of SeditiOn. Scidar
Balwantro Natu and Huropant Bam-
chunder Natu, who were arrested yes
terday on a charge of disloyaIty and es-
corted outside the limits of the Poona
rollectorate, have been deported under
the act empowering the viceroy to issue
a warrant for the arrest and deporta-
tion, without trial, of persons known to
be engaged in disloyal practices
This power has not been exercised for
many years. 1t was last empIoyed
during the viceroyalty of Lord Duffer-
I'm, when Dhulep Sing was arrested at
Alden, while en- route to stir up discon-
tent in the Punjab in furtherance of
plans formed during sOjOurn in Rus
Sia.
Its present employment has made a
great sensation among Europeans and
natives alike.
1t is believed that the hostility of the
Natu family is due to the fact that one
of the brothers who had been afflicted
with the plague was sent to the Poona
segregation camp along with the low
castes. The neighbors of the Natus
could not understand why he should be
treated like common people and on all
sides was heard the significant remark:
You will see what will happen when
Natu comes out