WIZIRISTAN REBELS.
VILLAGES BOMBED FROM AIR. A SUCCESSFUL SURPRISE. (Bereived 11.30 a.in.> DELHI, December 28. Sixteen machines bombed the Waziristan frontier villages, dropping four and a-half tons of bombs. Jt was a complete and successful surprise. The following day three more tona were dropped. One machine was forced to land, but succeeded in returning safely to its base. These have been followed by smaller bombing raids, eighteen machines dropping four tons in the two days preceding Christmas. Sixteen machines made 44 raids on the Jalal Khel settlements, dropping six tons.
Major Parson-, political agent at Warn. in Waziristan, who was in the leading machine, was wounded in the arm by rifle lire from the grou:ld. but the pilot escaped and also the observer. Ground targets were engaged by machine-guns from the planes. The Intelligence Department reports satisfactory results from the expeditions. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 5
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