The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-08-28
WAR IN INDIA.
News Of the G4satest Importance
Concerning the Rebellion.
INSURGENTS MASSACRE 300 SEpoYS.
They Csptur. Fort maude. Ono Of the
strongholds of khybe. Psss-Rs.
suit of Attaoks at Other
Point. hot Known. :


that large number Of Afridis, led by
9anatical priests. attacked the sepoys
near Fort Ali-Musjid, about noon
Tuesday. massaoreing 800, capturing
their rifles and then proceeding, in large
force. to make an attack upon the Brit
ash garrison on the Lowrgat. There Is
. very uneasy feeling in Quetta, where
the troops are under orders to be in
readiness to march to New Chalom,
which is the extreme outpost of the
Afghan frontier southeast OF Kanda-
har and on the edge of the Registrar
desert. between the provinces OF Toba
and Pishin. Khyber pass Is swarming
with Afridis, and it il feared the fall
Ing of Fort Maude has greatly en-.
couraged the rebellious elements.
Fort Maude Falls.
London, Aug. 25.--An official dispatch
from Simla announces that Fort Mauds
in the khyber pass has been captured
by the Afridis after desperate fighting.
The garrison, which was composed OF
native levies, known as the Khyber
rifles. retired with the loss Of three
men. The Afridis afterward burned
the fort.
Another Fort Abandoned.
simla. Aug. 25.-Later details of the
capture of Fort Maude by the insur-
gent tribesmen show that the garrison
or that place retired ut 1880 p. m. Mon
day, and that the fort was burned half
an hour later.
AT the same time that Fort Naude
was abandoned the Khyber rifles gar
risoning Fort Jewangera were COM
PEELED to abandon that place. The area
OF active fighting is enlarging rapidly.
The Afridis attacked with great de-
termination the fortified post at Sudda,
but were not successful in capturing it.
Parochinar was attacked Tuesday. The
results of this attack and Of the flght-
Ing at Fort Ali-Musjid are not known.
There are two English ladies with the
garrison at Parochinar. The British
military authorities have now modified
$1,000 men for frontier operations,
which, with the frontier garrisons,
make $4,000 men available for use
agains; the insurgents.
News of Grave Importance.
London, Aug. est is admitted in
official circles that the news from India
is OF the grnvest description. All those
who are familiar with the situation at
tach the greatest Importance to the
rising Of the wurlike Afridis, who are
estimated to muster $4,000 fighting
men. The Afridis. however, only form
part of the insurgents. A letter from
1ndia, published in the Standard, EN-.
phasizes the belief that the sultan of
Turkey is at the back of the whole up.
rising.
tKhyber Pass. where the fighting ia tax.
Ing place. is the principal north pass from
India into Afghanistan. and Is In the ex-
IRENE northwest Of India. 1t Ia about
400 miles almost due northwest from Simla.
from which place most of the news comes
and Is about $50 miles from Lahore in tho
Punjab district. Jamrood is just at the
entrance to the pass on the India side
and Peshawer. the northwest terminus OF
the India railway system, is ten miles east
OF 1t. The pass itself Is 30 miles long and
runs between cliffs 600 to 1000 feet high
from Jamrood to the plain Of Jelabadl