RESTLESS TRIBES
ON THE INDIAN FRONTIER. BRITAIN’S COSTLY CAMPAIGN. 237 LIVES IN A YEAR. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12 nopn.) LONDON, November 19. The Delhi correspondent of “The Times” says that tribesmen in the Lower Shaktu Valley killed one and wounded five South Wales Borderers, and wounded five Indian soldiers, but tribal resistance in Waziristan is ceasing, though the Fakir of Ipi and other recalcitrants are still at large. In a year’s campaign, 237 Government troops been killed and 663 wounded, and the cost of the operations has been £450,000. -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 35, 20 November 1937, Page 7
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