New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-12
A BRITISH DISASTER.
HOSTILE NATIVES ATTACK AN EXPE-
p1r1oN ON THE AFGHAN FRONTIER.
SEVERAL ENGLISH OFFICERS AND MANY INDIAN
SOLDIERS KILLED-COIoNEL BUNNY
AMONG THE DEAD.

AMONG THE DEAD
Bombay. June 11.--A dispatch received here
from Sma the residence of the Indian Govern
ment officials during the heated PERIODS OF the
wear announces serious trouble on the hor'heiii
frontier and the massacre OF NUMBER OF BTU
ish officers and native soldiers IN the "oNerh
ment employ. The first particulars optaihaoie
showed that two guns belonging 10 BOMBAY
r,onnted battery. escorted by three hundred men
belonging to the 1st Regiment OF Sikhs ana 10
the LIST Puniab Infantry. were treacherously at
tackled in the Tochi Valley by large force or
hostile natives The first report said that
Colonel Bunny. two Officers and twenty five pr-
Yates had been killed, and that three officers
and TWENTY-FIVE men had been wounded. In
addition numbers Of mules and horses were re-
ported killed.
The reports Indicated that the affair was more
than a mere conflict with warlike natives ana
TINT the notorious Mullah of Powindah is at the
bottom Of the trouble.
Later details show that a political officer MT.
MCGEE, was visiting Shrani with an escort Vi
troops when he attacked at MalZa py Na''
~ superior forces. The British troops were con-
nelled 10 retreat and were followed for seVerai
miles bv overwhelming numbers of the enemy.
The fighting was desperate. All the brltish oi
fcers were severely wounded. captain hfo""''
Of the 1st Sikhs, a son or the la'e Oh Jam
Browne and Lieutenant CrookshanK' Oh t"e
ROYAL Artillery. were killed, and Surgeon hls-
ginson Lieutenant Higginson, OF the ISL olMhs'
and Lieutenant Seaton- Browne of the fuh!ap
Infantry were wounded. The second dispatoi
does not mention the death OF Colonel Bunny
but from the fact that 1t says that CoioheI ~ VIZ
from Miranshah, has taken over the ColIntn, con. 'a,
oF The british forces engaged 1t is inferred that
Colonel Bunny is also among the DEAD as d.
first announced. , a on the
road TO Ghuzni and Waziristan IT mas ter pten
controlled by the British since the .nihos
of the Indo-Afghan frontier; but IL a anxiotv
there have always been turDulene' noinet the
Is felt lest the other tribes rise asaiii'' ~
British. ,,nor,n 70 the
British Indian authorities. He Is io'oiious
Fanatical priest and has always been hoslIie "
British influence. owing 10 an attempt w%mlch %
the Mullah recently made 10 stir up repeI1Ipn, ,,
he was expelled from British territory li,lS
caused him to be deserted by his own people
and he has since lived in Afghanistan' ana Is
understood TO have been actively plottlhS aSdlhs'
the British. He took part in the attack upon
the british camp at Wano, in November lS'a
While Colonel A. II. Turner, the Brltlsh Coih-
missioner was engaged in 1S9i n de.tmitlhs the
Indo-Afghan frontier, mis- camp AT dio Mas
attacked on November of that year by a large
force Of Waziri trbesmen. The british lost
about twenty private soldiers ana ore
camn followers killed before the Wazlils were
repulsed The latter left over two hundred ana
fifty dead on the field , ., -,
The news of the disaster on tile liOHtiei mas
been officially confirmed.
London. June l2-"The Times" correspond
ent at Simla says:
"Mr. Gee was sen. to fix the site of new out
most at Shorani and to recover the fine imposed
ON local trbesmen for past misconduct.
..1,bs ,roons after the attack. retired toward
Dattakhel sustaining a running fight fof TOUR
miles AS the Waziris were in such strength ie
vas impossible to do more than act on the de-
fensVe. .. -. s.or,
"Two companies of native infantry sent from
Dattakhel reinforced the party, Whlch prouGhC
I'm it's guns safely. No reason is yet given TOT
This sudden outbreak: but the garrison IN the
Tochi Valley will be reinforced. penang oe-
cision as to punitive operations.
THE present garrison consists of two regiments
OF native infantry one mountain battery and a
squadron of cavalry - - ,,,,.
The Bombay correspondent Of THE Daily Mali
says: o..., .. snov,
"A punitive expedition will be fitted out from
Rawalpindi 1t is expected that severe hghthg
will follow and that another Chitral VIII be en-
acted Unfortunately the sreat frontier general,
Ssr William Iockhart. is now on leave in Ger
many while Sir Power Palmer. the general COM
,nandinc the British forces on the Afghan from
tier Is on leave in England