TRIBAL UNREST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 7

TRIBAL UNREST.

TROOPS CALLED OUT. Cavalry and Armoured Cars In Peshawar. OFFICERS' LEAVE STOPPED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) B.UGBY, July 30. Owing to the disturbed situation of.' the North-West frontier of India, a column of 4000 troops is expected to leave Peshawar to-morrow and to proceed along (he Gandao Valley to support the chief of the loyal Haliiiizais tribes against a possible further incursion' into their territory by turbulant Upper Mohmands. A cavalry regiment and a section of armoured cars will stand by on the Peshawar Road. The Government, meanwhile, is awaiting the surrender of tho agitators, who are attempting to disturb the border peace and are being sheltered by the Bajaur tribe further north. Additional measures may bo necessary to enforce compliance with the Government's demand for the surrender of these agitators.

An curlier message stated that officers attached to the North-West Frontier units stationed at Peshawar have been recalled i'roni leave owing to the authorities' preparations for the dispatch of a force to Bajaur. The Khan of Kar is supposed to be sheltering three agitators suspected of stirring up trouble among the tribes in that region. The Khan declares that the suspects are in British territory.