The Saint Paul globe., 1897-08-29
CRITICISM IS FREE
EVERYBODY Connected WITH
THE GOVERNMENT BLAMED
FOR INDIAN UPRISING,
LORD ROBERTS INCLUDED.
THE WHOLE AFFAIR CLASSED AS
A LEGACY OF HIS ADMINS
TRATION.
STATE OF AFFAIRS is SERIOUS.
Latest News From the Front Does
Not Increase the Cheerfulness
of John Bull.
LORD ROBERTS INCLUDED.
STATE OF AFFAIRS is SERIOUS.

LONDON, Aug. 2S.-The Indian trcu-
bles have let loose a flood Of criticism
which blames everybody connected
with the government. Sir Ellis Ash
mead Bartlett, in a virulent letter, just
published, declares that a spirit Of IA
naticism has been aroused which will
be most difficult to quell, adding: 'Ev-
cry gallant life now lost in the on
slaught of the Northwestern fanatics
is a victim of the reckless Villifcation
and persecution of Turkey, which has
been the British policy since 1898, and
which has ruined the Armenians, Pros
trated the Greeks, revolutionized Crete.
lowered British prestige and aiienated
the Mussulmans in India"
Prof Arminius Vamberly, the we'll
known authority in all Oriental cues
tions, partly comedies with this view of
the situation, though disclaiming that
the sultan has any particular hand in
the present troubles, which are pam
Islamic
The Saturday Review, while excul-
pating the sultan, declares that Lord
Roberts, of Kandahar, is believed by
many of the best informed people to
be at the bottom of the affair, which
is classed as a legacy of the Lans-
downe-Roberts administration, whose
motto was military aggression
The Spectator, touching upon the
same subject, says: What we are
paying for and deserve to pay for, is
our unwillingness to grasp the Turkish
nettle boldly. Had it been known in
India that we alone had dared to CO.
cree the sultan and that he trembled
at our words. we should have had no
outbreak on the frontier
AMER's FINE HAND.
In spite of constant denials it is lit
tie doubted in official circles that the
Amer of Afghanistan has had a hand
in the present troubles, and that his
attitude toward Great Britain is un-
friendly. 1t has been known for months
past that the Amer has been ordering
enormous quantities of arms and am
munitiOn from agents in England and
this so attracted notice Of late, that
his orders were not executed. In the
meanwhile, no news is permitted to
leak out of Cabul, the capital of Afgha-
nistan. Every mail is closely scrutiniz-
ed and all suspected letters are. opened
Sir Salter Paine, the Amer's right
hand man, has been expected in Eng
land on his annual visit for weeks past
but no news has been received regard
ing his movements, and it is quite pos
sible that he is detained at Cabul by
the Amer.
News has been received of another
insurgent success. The Daulatzais, on
Thursday last, captured the police post
at Mahomedzai, which was garrison
ed by detachment of the border po-
lice. The garrison retreated to a new
post, held by detachment of the
Second Punjab infantry reaching
there the next morning.
As the flying column, commanded ny
Col. Richardson, which left Hangue
on Thursday, to re-enforce the post on
the SANTANA range, which was attack
ed by insurgents, was returning after
repulsing the enemy, the enemy rallied
and attacked the British force on the
plain. The tribesmen, however, al
:hough in great strength, We're again
iriven off with heavy loss. On the