3-085-832 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Baluchistan Disturbance: views and military types of the district, 1898. '1, 4, 6, 7. Baluchi Military Types; 2. Village outside Jask Telegraph Station; 3. Sepoys' Lines at Jask; 5. Station Well at Jask; 8. Jask Telegraph Station; 9. Ormara Telegraph Station. From Photographs supplied by Mr. E. Pierce. In Baluchistan Colonel Mayne and his force have followed up their defeat of the insurgents at the entrance to the western Pass of Turbat by advancing to Charbuk and demolishing the fortified stronghold there situated. Mehrab Khan Gitchi and his brothers have retreated thence, it is supposed beyond the Persian frontier. Our Illustrations include some views of this district - among them one of Ormara, the point from which Colonel Mayne advanced on Turbat. Ormara is situated on a small peninsula, about 155 miles from Karachi. The fort of Jask, also illustrated, lies within the Persian province of Kerman.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.