Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-21
LIEUTENANT CHURCHILL'S NEW
BOOK ON INDIAN TROUBLES.
THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE.
FEROCITY AND STRENGTH OF THE
NATIVE TRIBES.
Character of the War-The Moha mme-
dams Forced Six Days of Com
tinuous Fighting-Incidents
Showing Fiercenexs of
the Battles.

New York, March 20-In this city and
London, to-day, a bright and breezy book,
The Story of the MalakanG Field Force,
from the pen of Lieutenant Winston Spen-
Ger Churchill. of the Fourth CBrtish) Hus-
sars. was placed before the public. The
book will doubtless be welcomed by those
who delight in reports picturesquely made
of deeds of vaIor and hard fphtinr rener-
III. - -. .,,asaI.;a IT.
aiis' uiuer the Grea'esl aiiicui''es. ihe
tails, hard facts and figures, dates and
names with prettv pictures of Indian war
fa.a S'e.. .rn p.s ae pe.o,a.s - .,
iare anu hte eAaihpies vi hefoisii anu eh-
durance both among friend and foe.
Some idea of the country in which the
fighting took p,ace can be formed from the
iol.UminS ..,,', eAtIact.
The Himalayas are not a line but great
country of mountains. Standing on. some
lofty mass or commanding point in Dir
y, n"Jdut' iahse a.tet iahse ,
as the long surses OF an Atlantic swell ana
suggests a white-crested roller. higher than
tn rsst Tha dnannh;n, r.,ins m,hinh faII
- "e 'ieiiIe iati'o "..n az '
each year have washed the soil from the
strangely grooved by numberless water
courses and the bIacL nrimav.I rocl, is
everywhere exposed. The silt and seai-
ment has filled the valleys which lie be-
tween, and made their surface sandy, level
and broad Again the rain bas ont u,;d.
5aon 80 ooes..,,. a,'n.;. 20 "ius
~ -enansihs e"ahle's
throush this soft deposit; great cutters,
which are sometimes seventy feet decn and
onn or a,o rards 1000 rt,ess 80 ~
nullahs' Usually the smaller ones are
dry and the. larger occupied only by
streams, but in the season OF, the, rains
1au, bamrs water ,h pours uo"n all ana IN
nssS.hIo NV hTuts ,o .ne prook mas become an I'M
rolling t,onG at Will .te rn,a sTeleh ,h INTO
donu deenar Wnict IL swiris ana cuts the channel
Tbe ,sihasmssn ny Sea, esa a..or;,o, 80 ..r
aEYcant at M are t, uescrtpeo as Iollows:
state ia, OF feua and strife
pS Viii tribe belr9Tsn0u. %S % the iand. Tribe wars
With thnse of me people o. OF one , valley hight
another To the aHarreis e NJ fiia6x
are addad ,bo onh, gaai re ae'S u. Conniunlties
assaiIs Eban ZACH annnn,d 'f h' "a; Mua'i
ers ENerv Ht ,ribspp esSn nuppoh.ed Dy ms Tetain,
with his neghbor. Every W mans os'fa hand 1eIa 10
stranger anu "'' against ti'e
Nor are these struye,es cond,o,.a ,,,,,
the weaDons which usl,ajiv hejonp to the
of the ZuIu are added the craft nf the reS,
skin and the markmarshin of the "a Rnar
1000 yards the traveller fails wo,inGed nv
the we'll aimed bullet of n breechinadips
to pieces as he lies hiead;ng With the fur.
OF a South Sea islander The Weanops of
the nineteenth century are in the hands
of the savages of the stone age
4 The Mainland is then described at
length. the following extract giving some
idea of the scene of so much severe fight
ing:
The MaIaknnd Described.
..,,
Inc Maiakano is IKE great cup, OIL
winch the rim Is broken into numerous
cIefts and jagged points. AT the bottom of
this cun is the Crater camn THO 5een-
est cleft is the Maitland mass The hieb-
est of the Jagged nojnts is Guides. TiIJ
ON n spur Of which the fort stands II
needs no technical knowledge to see that
to defend such a place the rim of the cup
must be held But in the Malakand the
bottom of the cup is too small TO contain
the necessary garrison. The whole posi-
ton is, therefore, from the military point
of view, bad and indefensible"
Touching upon the policy which brought
@ ABOUT ans outnreak, Lieutenant Shurchill
1nestior NJ frontier noiicv @ is rsiSnd Wc
hold the MaIakand mass to keen the Chit
raj road open. We keep the Chitral road