London, Aug. 1
'The Government of India' preciation of the situation up to August 16 says that the position in the North¢West Frontier Province still one of considerable gravity and danger.
Detachment of the main force of Afridis remained at varying strength in the Peshawar district throughout the week, Numerous large gangs, which were concealed in the thickly wooded belt to the south and southist of Peshawar and among the ravines to the east, were a constant source of trouble and anxiety. They "undoubtedly received shelter and food and some active assistance from the villages in the neighbourhood of Peshawar," but by the end of the week the Afridis in the Peshawar district and also the main body in the vicinity of the Khajuri RIY. pai had greatly decreased.
nevertheless, there are other potential sources of danger in the Peshawar district from other tribes to the north and south.
In conclusion the Government communique mentions again the strenuous efforts that are being made by Congress agitators to spread their propaganda in the districts south of Kohat.
Economic. conditions generally throughout India, states the Gov-sinment report, tend to deteriorate and the continued boycott of British goods, especially cloth, threatens: imminent ruin to a large number of small Indian dealers who are unable to resist the pressure of a social boycott and other methods of 'A verdict of accidental death through drowning, with a rider expressing the opinion that there was] Taxity in the placing of Coast Guard ]watches, was returned at the inquest Jat Polruan, Cornwall, on Commodore the Re, Hon. H. K,'King, Unionist] MP. for South Paddington, and Lieutenant-Commander Searle, of 2 the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who lost their lives when the yacht Islander, chartered by Commodore King, was pounded to destruction jon the coast of Cornwall on August}
The evidence showed that the Coast Guard watch-house, from which the distress signals of the ill-fated Islander could have been seen, was not manned at the oime of the! disaster.
The other victims of the disaster, ]which took the lives of all aboard, were one of the daughters of Commodore King; Surgeon Captain A. R. Brailey, medical officer of H.MS. President; Captain Glazebrook, the skipper; and two deck bands.—Reuter.
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