The Bhootan war is not all over. Everybody in India
thought it was, but there is a person in Bhootan called the Penlow, or hereditary war minister, who seems to think he has a moral right to drive out invaders if he can. It is a very improper idea, but then the Penlow is a savage, and gathering some 20,000 other savages on his own estates, he has made a series of imperti- nent attacks upon British positions. On the 26th January they attacked Buse and Chamoourchee, but were repulsed, on 29th Dewanigiri, and were beaten, and on the 27th Bola Pass, and were driven back. Then Colonel Watson tried a similar policy, making two attacks, both of .which failed, the series costing us Lieutenant Millett killed, two officers wounded, and a number of men. Colonel Watson now writes for reinforcements, and it appears that this little affair involves the defence of a frontier 200 miles long, against an enemy who has courage for a night attack up a ridge, and can bring 20,000 men into the field. It will be necessary to send Europeans, the Sepoys getting sick too fast, and to march on the capital.
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