Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1879 — The Cabul Revolt and Massacre. [ARTICLE]

The Cabul Revolt and Massacre.

The British Mission to Afghanistan consisted of Maj. Cavagnari, his secretary (Jenkins), Dr. Kelley and Lieut. Hamilton, commanding the escort, conissting of twenty-six cavalry and fifty infantry and Sepoy guards. The troops of the Embassy were lodged in two houses in the city, joined by a quadrangle. The nouses were spacious, but, unfortunately, chiefly constructed of wood. The mutineers finally burned down the doors of the Embassy and swarmed in. The party made a very stubborn defense. The loss of the rioters killed in the fight is estimated at ovor 100. The British are advancing on Cabul in three columns. A dispatch from Calcutta says: “ From the imperfect information so far obtainable, there seems to be good reason to favor the view that the disaffection has not spread all over Afghanistan, but that tho affair is merely a local emeute which will speedily disappear when the British troops arrive at Cabul. The Government apparently does not doubt the fidelity of the Ameer. Badshah Khan’s adhesion to the British cause is valuable as removing what might have been a serious obstacle to the advance from Kuram to CabuL The fact that the insurgents did not wait until tl.e winter snows had blockaded the passes, or even until the British had evacuated Candahar, seems to indicate that the rising was wholly unpremeditated. *