The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-12
Outbreak of TreacherOus Tribesmen
in Northern India That Maye Prove
Difficult to Suppress.
TURKEY Baked BY BRITAIN
NOTICE SERVED THAT THESSALY
MUST REMAIN WITH GREECE.
Argentina Attacked by Uruguay-Bra-
lillian Fanatics SIaughtered-Over
100 Chinese Burned.

LONDON, June 12.-Advices from India
say there has been an uprising of natives
on the northern frontier, and that several
British officers and soldiers have been sur
prised and killed. A dispatch received at
Bombay from Simla yesterday says: From
the particulars obtainable at present it
seems that two guns belonging to a Bonn
bay mounted battery, escorted by three
hundred men belonging to the first regi-
ment of Sikhs and the First Punjab In
fantry were treacherously attacked in the
Tochi valley by large force of hostile ma
tives. The first report said that Colonel
Bunny, two officers and twenty-five pri
Yates had been killed and that three Of
ficers and twenty-five men had been
wounded. In addition, numbers of mules
and horses are reported killed Indications
are that the affair is more than a mere
conflict with warlike natives, and that the
notorious mullah or Powindah is at the
bottom of the trouble"
Another dispatch from Bombay says:
THE latest advices are that political Of
ficer, Mr. Gee, was visiting Shirani with an
escort of troops when he was attacked at
Maiza by vastly superior forces. The
British troops were compelled to retreat
and were followed for several miles by
overwhelming numbers of the enemy. The
fighting was desperate. All the British Of
ficers were severely wounded Captain
Browne, of the First Elkhs, a son of the
late Sir James Browne, and Lieutenant
Crookshank of the Royal Artillery, were
killed and Surgeon Higginson, Lieutenant
Higginson, OF the First Sil1hs and Lieu
tenant Seaton-Browne, of the Punjab In
fantry were wounded" The second dis
patch does not mention the death of
Colonel Bunny, but from the fact that 1t
saws Colonel Gray from Miranshah, has
taken over the command of the British
force engaged, it is inferred that Colonel
Bunny is also among the dead, as at first
announced.
''Tochi valley lies north of Gamul and on
the road to GhuZni and Waziristan. 1t has
been controlled by the British in the de-
limitation of the lndo-Afghan frontier but
the tribes There have always been turbulent
and fear is felt lest the other tribes rise
against the British. The mullah of Powin-
dab is well known to the British Indian au-
thorities. He is a NOTORIOUS fanatical
priest and has always been hostile to Brit
the mullah recently made to stir up re-
bellion he was expelled from British terri
tory. This caused him to be deserted by MS
own people and he has since lived in At
ghanistan and is understood to have been
actively plotting against the British. lie
took part in the attack on the Britls6 3,S camp
H Turner. the British commissioner, was
engaged in 1894. in delimiting the Indo-
Afghan 1rOlIler MS camp DIT w dIO was etL-
tackled on Nov. of that year by large
force of Waziri tribesmen. The British lost
about twenty private soldiers and twenty
camp followers killed before the Warizis
were repulsed. The latter left over 250 dead
on the field"
The Times correspondent at Simla says:
Mr.. Gee was sent to fix a site of a new
outpost at Sherani and to recover the fine
imposed on local tribesmen for past mis-
conduct. The troops after the attack retired
towards Dattakhel, sustaining a running
fight for four miles, as the Waziris were in
such strength it was impossible to do more
than act on the defensive. Two companies
of native infantry sent from Dattakhel re-
inforced the party, which brought in its
guns in safety No reason is yet given for
this sudden outbreak. but the garrison in
the Tochi valley will be reinforced pending
a decision as to punitive operations. The
present garrison consists of two regiments
of native infantry. one mounted battery and
a squadron of cavalry"
The Bombay correspondent Of the Daily
Mail says: IA punitive expedition will be
fitted out from Rawalpindi. 1t is expected
that severe fighting will follow and that
another Chitral will be enacted. Unfortu-
natey the great frontier general Sir Will
liam LOckhart, is now on leave in Germany,
while Sir Power Palmer the general com
manding the British forces on the Afghan
frontier, is on leave in England"