Lusty cheers greeted the men of a native Porto Rican battalion as they marched along with swinging gait in the parade that supplied the most picturesque feature of the second inauguration of President McKinley. Americans greeted as fellow Americans these men who, three years ago, were subjects of the King of Spain, but now belong to Uncle Sam. Certainly the Porto Ricans have well deserved the reputation of being ardent believers in American imperialism. After the fall of Spanish power in Porto Rico, General Miles reported that on his march to San Juan the people had literally overwhelmed him with their offers of service under the American flag. Had he possessed the arms, and had there been the necessity, General Miles is reported to have said he could have secured fifty thousand natives as volunteers against the Spaniards.
This defile, one of the most formidable and impenetrable in Asia, as a line of military defence, extends from Jumrood upwards in the direction of Jellalabad, without interval, for the space of twenty-eight miles, throughout twenty-two of which it has hitherto been reckoned impassable for an army, when the inhabitants had determined to oppose them. From Jumrood, where the pass opens on the Peshawar side, to Ali Musjid, the dell is deep and uninterrupted; and the celebrated fort, just named, which stands on an isolated hill, in the narrow, near the middle of the defile, completely commands it. Here it is so sickly that the troops we have endeavoured to keep in the fort have from time to time been nearly all swept away. For about seven miles beyond All Musjid, the ascent is somewhat uniform till it arrives near Lundee Khana, where for a couple of miles it stretches out to the face of a frightful precipice, like the galleries by which the Simplon is traversed.
Chief Puts Himself, Family and Property Under Their Protection.
WILL BE TAKEN TO TAZA TO AWAIT INSTRUCTIONS
Capitulation Follows Setbacks on All Sides and Desertions by His Followers.
By the Associated Press.
FEZ. French Morocco. May 26.—It was officially announced this afternoon that Abd-el-Krim. the Riffian chief, was coming into the French lines.
Krlm will be taken to Taza, where the instructions of the French resident general, Jules Steeg, are awaited. Krim, it is announced, puts himself, his family and property under the protection of France.
We are enabled, through the courtesy of Mr. Waghorn, to present our readers with a detail of his route from India to England; and as the subject involves considerations of vast importance to this country as well as to Europe generally, we have selected it for illustration in our present number. This gentleman has now long been known to the world as the indefatigable and persevering author of the overland route to India. Brought up from an early age in the pilot service of the East India Company, and having distinguished himself in the Arracan expedition, he was in the year 1827 recommended by Lord Combermere to the Court of Directors, as a proper person to open steam intercourse between this country and India. To this he devoted himself; and in 1829 his views had attracted so much public attention, that he was selected by the Company to take out despatches, and report upon the route by the Red Sea. For his successful accomplishment of this duty, he received, on his arrival at Bombay, the thanks of the Governor General in council; and the circumstance of his having proceeded down the Red Sea in an open boat, when disappointed of his steamer, the Enterprise, at Suez, was particularly adverted to, as indicating the zeal with which he had applied himself to the service of the public. Since the year 1831, the endeavours of this gentleman to accomplish his object, by the formation of establishments in Egypt, for the passage of mails and passengers, have been unceasing, and are at length crowned with perfect success. Upon one occasion, in the year 1836, it is recollected that he succeeded in getting a mail from Bombay to London within 60 days, and the rapidity of his method so impressed the public, the Government, and the Board of Directors, with the advantages to be derived from his line of route, that steamers were forthwith placed at his disposal for facilitating his plans; and so successfully had he availed himself of the resources opened to him, as well by the patronage of the Government at home, as by his personal intimacy with Mehemet Ali, that the Indian mail of July 1841 passed from the post-office of London to the post-office of Bombay in 30 days and 10 hours. There can be no question that this gentleman is eminently entitled to the gratitude of his country, or, we may justly say, of all Europe, for the genius, zeal, and self-devotion by which he has so materially shortened the distance between two points of the globe, so important and so essential to the welfare of each other.
INDIA.—A letter was received in town on the 9th inst., from Captain J. Hoppe, of the 16th Bengal Native Infantry, and Adjutant of the 2nd regiment of Infantry of Shah Soojah. Captain Hoppe led the storming party, and was wounded in the attack of Kelali Ghilzie. His letter is dated Candahar, February 14: the gallant officer writes to his father thus :—” We are, thank God, all safe at this place, although in the daily expectation of the people in the town rising against us, and the enemy, only twenty-five miles off, are threatening to attack us. Our communication with Cabul and the provinces is cut off, and report says that Sir W. M’Naghten, the envoy and minister, is murdered, with several other officers. It is to be hoped, in the spring, troops will be pushed up from India—for we can do nothing at this season—when, please God, we will give them a lesson they little think of. General Nott, with a large force, went against the rebels, collected only eight miles from Candahar, and killed and wounded 700 or 800 of them, but they are increasing in numbers every day, and one of Shah Soojah’s sons (Satter Jung) at their head. It is said they dined in their shrouds the other day, and swore upon the Koran that they would either murder us all, or be killed in the attempt. At present we are all safe and well.”
OUJIDA, April 29—(AP)—Tribes which have been dickering with French and Spanish for peace have opened hostilities, necessitating of French artillery reprisals. Several French soldiers were killed or wounded when the…
General Franks had taken the field in the end of December, with a strong brigade under him, intending to operate on the southern and eastern frontier, in harmony with the Goorkhas under Jung Bahadoor. He marched from Benares with a troop and battery of Royal artillery. a wing of H. M.’s 10th and H. M.’s 37th and 17th. Having twice gained brilliant victories over the enemy, he marched on the 10th to Chanda, a village about 12 miles from Chegra Mhow. When about eight miles on the way the enemy suddenly opened fire on our advanced guard from behind a vast mound of earth which concealed them. Our 18-pounders were immediately brought to bear upon them, when they quitter their strongly intrenched position and fled, leaving eight guns in our hands, with sixty or eighty killed. Our skirmishers and Horse Artillery pursued for about 3 miles, when they found themselves getting too far a head of their supports. The main body of the brigade followed and encamped where the country had every appearance of being clear around.
Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, under date, Stanley, Falkland Islands, Jan. 5, of a most daring attack on the ship Porcupine, of Liverpool, Millinger, master, by the Patagonians. It…
El Nacionalista de Ponce for Feb. 20th in an extremely interesting article gives its readers to understand that the Porto Rican people have been reduced to the level of serfs…
DESSYE, Ethiopia. Jan. 10. (U.P)—Ethiopian warriors, their fury a white heat after months of restraint, are attacking Italians on all fronts, reports to Emperor Haile Selassie’s war headquarters indicated today.
Aided by rains pouring weeks before they were due, the warriors are reported to be attacking at every possible point, hoping to break the Italian morale—which is believed here to be below par. For weeks the Italians have made no advance while Ethiopian guerrilla bands have constantly attacked isolated outposts at night.
Reports to headquarters today told of an Ethiopian annihilation of an Italian tank and machine gun detachment on the far southern front in which many Italians were killed and one officer captured. The reports said the Ethiopians used tanks, and these were believed to be the ones captured long ago at Anale and reconditioned for use against their original owners.
