The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-29
SWATIS TO BE PUNISHED.
Britain HurryinG Troops Into the
ChitraI District of India.


ChitraI District of India.
LONDON, July PA dispatch from Sim
la says that the government is taking all
steps necessary to cope with the emergen-
cy in the Chitral Although Fort Chalk
dara, now cut off, occupied an isolated po-
sition, it is believed that with two COM
panies of the Thirty-frst Punjab
Infantry and two guns the garri-
can hold it's own The
road between Mardan and Malakand is
blocked with hostile tribesmen, who have
cut telegraph wires. Three squadrons of
Bengal lancers and the Second Punjab In
fantry Regiment have started for Mardan.
The Seventh Mountain Battery is on the
way to Malakand and the West Kent Regi-
ment is held in readiness at Peshawar. The
Simla dispatch also says that Captain Hol-
land, of the Punjab Twenty-fourth Infan-
try, was among those seriously wounded
during Monday nights attack on Camp
Malakand.
A dispatch from Bombay says that Gan
gadhar Tilak, a native member of the leg
islatiVe council, was arrested last evening
on the charge of melting the natives to
disaffection. He was formally arragned in
the Bombay Police Court this morning after
which the hearing was adjourned. Gangad-
har Tilak has for LONG time agitated in
discriminatory against British rule OF late
he has been more than usually Virulent. He
IS Il through I3DdtlC, OppOSeUE 10 European
ideas and innovations; and he has been a
leader in the recent outbreaks against the
sanitary regulations. Withal he is man
of talent.
The uprising in the Swat valley has led
the Indian government to adopt the policy
of suppression toward the native agitatorS
who in speeches aud through the native
press have for long time been endeaVor-
ing to promote the spirit of revolt. In pur-
suance of this policy a number of arrests
have already been made and others are eX-
pected to follow. At Poona two well-known
agitators-Scidar Balwantrao Natu and his
brother Huropant Ramchunder Natu-have
been arrested number of houses have
been searched with the result that the po-
lice have found arms concealed, though
the owners have departed for parts UNI
known. EshoO Madow Bal, partner of
Gangadhar Tilak in publishing the news
paper kesari, has been arrested. The office
has been searched and a quantity of incrim-
mating documents seized, together with an
issue of the paper. Eshoo will be put on
liShed intlammatory articles before the
murders of Plague Commissioner Rand and
Lieutenant Arrest. He has repeated the
there is general establishment that he has
so long been allowed immunity He was re-
Gently elected member of the Bombay
by Lord SandhurSt, the Governor, has been
severely criticised Gangadhar Tilak Of
fered ball. but the magistrate refused to
accept it. During the arrangement there
was the greatest excitement among the ma
tives in the courtroom and outside the
building. The two Natus were arrested at
sunrise and escorted outside the limits of
the Poona collectorate by a formidable
body of mounted police. All their property
has been attached The family, which is old
and wealthy, has been implicated in many
Brahmin fanatical movements. 1t Is alleged
that the brothers Natu led the mob which
desecrated the Mohammedan mosque at
Daru Wallah Two men were killed in the
riot. The younger Natu was tried Tor muir
der, but acquitted.