The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-30
MALAKAND'S MURDERoUS WAR
BRITISH FORCE FIERCELY At
Tackled ny THE TRIBESMEN.


The Rising of the Natives on a Large
ScaIe-NightIy Attacks That Last
Until DaybrcRk Wearing Out the
British FOrce-Parties on the Hills
Keep Up the Work of Harassing
During the Day Time-Thc British
Strongly Intrenched.
Bombay, July 29-The situation at Camp
Malakand has become very serious. Word
has been received that the natives in large
forces made second attack on the fort.
The fight was severe. Thirteen of the
British were killed and sixty wounded,
among the latter being Lieut.. Castelto.
The tribemen lost 100.
Simla, July 20.-The North Camp Ma
iakand was abandoned yesterday after
noon, the troops concentrating on Ko-
tall The attack began at $50 on the pre-
vious evening and lasted until daybreak
yesterday. Desultory firing had contin-
ued throughout the day, the tribesmen
driving in the pickets, of whom thirteen
Sepoys were killed and forty-three
wounded.
The Punjab infantry, led by Lieut.. Gil
mo, in a succession of brilliant charges,
drove back great masses of the tribesmen,
killing ninety. The enemy is collecting
in large forces and severe fighting is an
ticipated. Reinforcements have been sent
to Dargai.
London, July 80, a. m.-The Times
this morning publishes a dispatch from
Simla saying that the road from Mardan
TO Malakand seems free, as an officer
with an escort of only four men passed
safely along the road to the camp on
Wednesday. In the fighting on Monday
the tribesmen were repeatedly repulsed,
but always returned to the attack and
finally succeeded in penetrating to the
part of the camp where the commissariat
Sheds the engineers field staff and the
bazaar are situated. The native losses
must have been severe, as thirty bodies
were found at daylight when the attack
ers retired into the valley.
TIE Daily News prints a dispatch from
Malakand showing that the rising of the
natives is OF a large scale. Each night,
the dispatch says, determined attack has
been made, lasting until daybreak; while
during the daytime the garrison is har>
rasSed by parties on hills within range Of
the British pickets. The tactics prove e.
severe strain to the troops, who fatlgued
with night fighting, cannot assume the
offensive.
A later dispatch from Simla says that on
Wednesday the enemy returned with re-
Inducements and at 10 O'Clock at night re-
newed the attack with equal determna-
ton, charging, as on Monday night, right
up to the breastworks. They were re-
pulsed, however, at all points. The Brit
ish losses were much smaller than on the
previous night, being only three officers
wounded and two native soldiers Killed and
eight wounded The enemy retired at day
break. carrying off their dead, but the
British soldiers were to much fatigued to
pursue them. A renewal Of the attack Is
expected tonight Thursday, but the
troops are so strongly intrenched that no
anxiety is felt as TO the result.
Large supplies of ammunition are en-
route by railway to Nowshera. Mai
Taylor has died from his wounds
England's attention win be sharply re-
called to her troubles in the Chltral re-
gion in 1895 by the new outbreak OF the
tribesmen.
The restlessness of these Asiatc high
landers Is a matter of record, and the
celebrated relief of the Chitral fort by the
BRUSH East Indian forces, under Maj.
Gen. Sir n. Cunliffe Low, forms one of
the most brilliant chapters In England s
struggle to retain and advance her iniu-
ence in the east. The trouble at that time
was caused by fatal quarrels among the
native rulers and, in the heat OF pas
sion, subsequent INSTRUMENTATION and
defiance Of the British power 1t IS proba-
bic that the same defiance has again man
Tested itself in these mountain Businesses.
Chitral is a region situated on the south
ern side Of the Hindoo Kush, into which
opens one of the principal mountain passes
leading from the valley Of the Oxus to
Cashmere and Peshawur. The Malakand
pass Is the chief route across the noun
tans into the Swat valley, the home Of
the tribesmen. The region above the val
ley Is forbdding but grand IN the extreme
in its natural outlines. The mountains
are snow-capped. their bases and Sides
rugged, dark brown rock. unrelieved by a
single green thing The hight is less than
5000 or 10000 feet. Below these are the ter
rble dehes and frownng chasms. worn
away and cut by the torrents that for
ages have tossed themselves along in these
eolltudes.
One OF the chief means Of defense OF the
mountaneers is the throwing OF rocks
down upon any invading force. This has
reached the dignity OF n science among
them, and It's effects are terrible for the
hapless force fated TO come within range
OF these primitive weapons.