MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he has received any official information as to an attack made on the 10th instant upon a guard of the 45th Sikhs by Mahsuds near the Jandola post.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe answer is in the affirmative. The occurrence took place within half a mile of Jandola post. A guard of four sepoys, of whom only two were armed, were attacked by about thirty tribesmen; two sepoys were killed, and one was mor- 584 tally wounded. Two rifles and some ammunition were carried off. The tribesmen are being pursued, but at present only a portion of the ammunition has been recovered.