The Indian Frontier War. Capture of Umra Khan. [By Cable.] London
THE Khan of Dir, who is friendly towards the British, has sent a force of 2000 men to Chitral to relieve Dr. Robertson, the British agent, and his…
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THE Khan of Dir, who is friendly towards the British, has sent a force of 2000 men to Chitral to relieve Dr. Robertson, the British agent, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Japanese Legation at Washington hay been informed that an understanding has been arrived at between the Japanese and Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The statement that a treaty of peace had been concluded between Japan and China is the most noteable news which has transpired during the week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lieutenants Fowler and Edwards, who are attached to the Chitral expedition, were captured by the enemy through treachery while they were engaged in a polo match. Lieutenant Edwards has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The India Office thinks that the British garrison, with Dr. Robertson, the agent at Chitral, which according to last accounts was reduced to great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT St. Petersburg it is reported that Great Britain has informed the Russian Government that no ground exists for interference by the European…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Despite the assurances given by Umra [?] that Dr. Robertson, the British Agent at Chitral, and his party ire no longer menaced, the British relief expedition continues to march upon Chitral…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is probable that Nicaragua will be further troubled with an internal war. The British occupation of Corinto has created disaffection among a large section of people, and a rising is feared at any moment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farther details have been received from India of the relief of the British garrison in Chitral Fort. The siege of Chitral commenced on the 4th March and ended on the 19th April. The food on which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I saw rebellion in the clouds: On the four winds they hurried by, And massed around, in mighty crowds, The castern portals of the sky…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Congo Free State has expelled the forces of the Mahdist from the Equatorial province after severe fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American financiers are now arranging an offer to furnish the Chinese Government with 200,000,000 tales in silver, as part of the war indemnity to be paid to Japan by China…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Italian man-of-war Sardegna, which was one of the vessels forming the Italinu squadron at Kiel on the occasion of the opening of the Baltic and North Sea Canal, has gone aground in the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shanghai papers declare that a war between Russia and Japan is inevitable. The question in dispute is the control of Corea, and it is regarded as almost certain that hostilities will begin within…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is persistently reported that the proposed Russo-Chinese loan of 400,000,000[?] (£16,000,000), which was to have been issued in Paris, has been abandoned, China preferring to negotiate with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All sorts of quaint instances of Chinese fatuity in connection with the war are coining to light, but one of the oddest is given by the Nauking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious fighting, which lasted many days, has taken place at Macedonia. Churches have been converted into hospitals, and villages abandoned by the inhabitants have been burned by tho Turkish…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →China is willing to concede to Russia and France the raising of half the amount of the indemnity loan (£16,000,000), provided the other half be raised in Great Britain and Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Italian man-of-war Sardegna (one of the vessels forming the Italian squadron at the Kiel demonstration), which went aground in the Great Belt while on her return voyage to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, in his lecture, "From Gettysburg to Appomattox," said that nothing like the personal friendship and fraternization which existed and occurred…
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