News of the disaster to British troops in the Tachi Valley, in which Colonel Bunny and twa other British officers were killed, reached London to-day, and has brought with it the certainty that we shall not get through this year of rejoicing without a little punitive war. Most of the evening papers in which the disaster is announced appear to be quite ignorant of the ye phy of the Indian frontier. They describe the slaughter as having occurred in India, There isa section of the Anglo Indian purty in this country which has for some time past been raising protests against: the pol military stations in what ix really Afghan territory, inhabited by the fiercest of Afghan peoples, although it is by treaty with the Amir under British control. This party will of course find in the disaster a proof of the justice of their protest; bat whatever the rights and wrongs of this question may be, no one will dispute the necessity of teaching a severe lesson to the Mullicks.
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