The regiments there had joined the Meerut mutineers, had shot down their officers, and murdered every European they could lay hands on; that three officers and six noncommissioned officers, who were in charge of the arsenal, had defended it desperately, and had finally blown up the magazine with hundreds of its assailants.

Three of the defenders had reached Meerut with the news.
Day by day the gloom thickened.

The native regiments in the Punjaub rose as soon as the news from Meerut and Delhi reached them, but there were white troops there, and they were used energetically and promptly.

In some places the mutineers were disarmed before they broke out into open violence; in other cases mutinous regiments were promptly attacked and scattered.

Several of the leading chiefs had hastened to assure the Government of their fidelity, and had placed their troops and resources at its disposal.
But in the Punjaub alone the lookout appeared favorable.