The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-04

been among the most faithful soldiers Of
England. Ihey are expert artillerymen
and splendid cavalry fighters. 1t is said
of them that they are the best defensive
lighters on Garth, reputation that was
won by the Fifteenth Sikbs on many
"A perilOus field. II the insurrection should
spread westerly across tho Punlab toward
k8shmir the Dogras will be in the thick
OF the light. There are seven infantry
and three cavalry regiments of these re-
douctnble warriors, who trace their de-
scent back to fabulous ages. These ma
tives OF tho eastern Himaayas are to
great extent pegceabic. bat III war are in
the first class in attack.
Gen. stewart who preceded Roberts in
command Of the Indian army. has cheer
fully testified that at the battle of Ahmad
hhcl in 1880 the Afghans would have
forced disaster upon the British had it not
been for the intrepid valOr Of the Dugras
at critical moment when the English
lines were being brokcu. There are al
ready mnssed on the Afghan frontier
several regiments CT Raiputs, who are
good cavalrymen. and while not yet re-
nowned as fighters, their history as ma
tive tribe warrants the belief that they
Will rank with the SikEs, DOgras and the
Mussulnians Of tho Punjab They have
several native commands, ana are cX
treDely loyal soldiers. III the inSurrection
should spread there will be great interest
in the dOings of the PAthaus, thousands
Of whum Gen Roberts mustered into the
Bengal and Punjab armies They are the
best mountain fighters of northeast India,
but their close relation 20 tho Afghans
and tho border tribes. and their general
reputation for Gntrustwortniness will
cause them to he closely watched. IL a
mutiuy should break out in the Punjab
these mountain soldiers would probably
De tho first TO revolt.
SCENE OF THE STRUGGLE.
II we assume India TO be the United
States from the Gulf Of Mexico north to
the Great lakes and west from tho
Atlantic TO the mississippi river. the
reader cuniobtain for oil practical pur-
poses fair idea Of where the present
sruggle has begun laking away tho
treat Lakes in the north, we shall assume
& lnada to DO Russia in Asia,
and the states south of Canada ana
just west OF the northern Mississippi to
be Afghanistan This will not Toe exact
geographically, buJ is accurate enough
fOr surface outline. Wisconsin on
such an outline map would be the
scene of hostiiitie-, together with tho
on.tarlv sections of Minnesota, and north
east Iowa, northern Illinois and as far
east as Chicago might be placed in the
distur bed zone his is the oasterIy
PunJab ana MiohlRans Indiana and
Ono may be called tho central punjab.
TO which the lighting may spread, or it
may ~ southerly 90 Beloochistan
II the English find that tho raids have
beou inCitod from Afghanistan they will
cross tho mountains through tho khyhor
and other passes, and by Furnishing the
Ameor, take the war over TO wnat on the
| nited states map would bs tho Missouri
river country or South and North Dako.a
and Nebraska ~ outI OF Nebraska wo II
bo Beioo.hlstan. where there is littIe
danger of serious fighting, a. tho Bengal
troops Cf south lnCia could bo quickly
thrown Ovor the frontier line. Bengal
having the relation in India to Missis-
,ippi, tennessee, Missouri and western
koptucky on the map outlined. On such
"a map as indicated, the sceno Of the
famous Indian mutuy of 1867 would be-
in Pennsylvania, with Scranton as Luck
now and HARRISBURG as Cawnpore
Erie would then be Delhi, the first
place takgn by tho mutineers after they
had begun thoir massacre at Moerut
thirty miles away.
FAMOUS INDIAN RENOLTS.
Tho spread of education in the Indian
Empire and the Introduction of all civil
ling influences have probably wiped out
much danger of Ind an mnssgctCs in tho
future. The noscd massacre OF Nallora
was in l,0t when native Sopoy tio1ps
rcyolted aud killed % s1.dicrs. Nasco ga
CANA, the intrepid Portuguese explorer
bad centuries before cut OFF tho hands
and feet OF fifty natives and burned "A
shlp's crow, but MS lerOcity WAS mild