The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-20
THE INDIAN REBELLION.
Fears OF Great U prlsing In India-Abeu
the FamIne In IrsIanl.


Ihr Famine la ireland.
LONDON, Sept, 1.-the fact that no
less than ten batteries of horse and field
artillery have been ordered TO embark
for India during the months of septem-
Der and october is much commented on
in military circles. Under ordinary cir
eumstapces the four batteries now In
India would have been relieved this
month. But these have been ordered to
remain In India, and there win shortly
be on the frontier fourteen batteries of
artillery, a full complement for an army
corps.
AS the British force now assembled on
the frontier Is Of ample strength to wipe
out all visible resistance, the only con-
cluslon that can be reached In relation
10 the dispatch OF endorsements of ar
tillery is that the authorities are pos
sessed Of information OF serious CHAR
acter
office on Monday last, to the Londoh
commercial agent of the ameer OF Al
ghanistan, that no war materlal OF ma
chinery for the manufacture thereof
will he allowed 10 cross the frontier dur
ing the present crisis, indicates that the
British government has by no means en-
tire confidence in the ameers naellty,
and II Is limited the government mas
learned that while protesting friendl'
ness 10 Great Britain the ameer has been
secretly preparing for war ,,.
Well-informed circles are also uiscuss-
ing the story Of secret correspondence
between Russia and Afghanlstan, whleh
Is said to have fallen into the hands OF
British officials, and 1t Is further lnu'
mated that q widespread plot embrace
ing the Beluchis and others mas Oeeh
discovered
The truth or otherwise of these storlea
will develop hereafter; but, the fact re-
mains that the large increase in the
strength Of the British artillery In INDIA
cannot be intended for use against the
AfridIs.
The extent Of the distress threatening
Ireland seems to depend entirely as TO
through which partys eyes Il Is viewed.
Tho council Of the National Federation
has decided that the country Is on the
brink of a widespread calamity, rand
calls upon Messrs, Dillon and Harring-
ton to eonvoke a meeting of the Irish
members of parliament for the purpose
OF requisitIoninG MI Balfour, the gov
eminent leader in the commons, to call
an autumn session. of parliament, to de-
wise relief measures, and to pass bill
reducing rents in ireland In proportion
to the loss incurred by the tenants ow-
Ing to the wholesale destruction of their
crops.
On the other hand the Dublin Ex-
press says the cry of famine Is only q
continuation of the party war cry, which
Is raised every year the Unionists are In
office, and adds:
Judging from the past, we may hope
that much of the crops doomed to de-
structlon by the prophets of evil will be
rescued, and that the general yield Will
be much larger than expected"
The Daily Independent regards the
suggestion that the duchess of York will
shortly appeal for funds In behalf of
the Irish, who are threatened with IA
MINI as being an insult, and says:
III the country was ten times as badly
off as 1t Is likely to be, II would resent
any charitable appeal to the English"
The Independent emphatlcatty denies
that Ireland, as q whole, Will suffer
acute distress.