SANGUINARY ACTION ON N.-W. FRONTIER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 203, 28 August 1935, Page 7

SANGUINARY ACTION ON N.-W. FRONTIER.

60 RAIDERS KILLED. Indian Troops and 'Planes Drive Off Marauders. NOTORIOUS OUTLAW SLAIN. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) SIMLA, August 27. More than 60 tribesmen were killed and 46 were wounded in an action on August 24 between disaffected clansmen and British Indian forces operating in the mountainous region of the North-West Frontier, intersected by the Gandab Valley. The Indian Army casualties were five killed and 21 wounded. Various factors resulted in the tribesmen venting their spleen on the workers repairing a road built through the Gandab Valley in 1933 for the protection of Lower Mohmands from the incursions of tribesmen from the Upper Mohmand country. The raiders were dispersed but reassembled 2000 strong, including a contingent from Upper Mohmand operating under the "mad fakir of Alingar." Faced with this serious situation, troops from Peshawar and Nowshera went into action in co-operation with the Royal Air Force, which latter also attacked the bases in adjoining hostile zones. The notorious outlaw, Chimnai, w„as shot at night time at Sandasar by a Mohmand, who qualifies for a reward of £250. Chimnai made many depredations in Peshawar district and was partly responsible for the operations on the Gandab road.