HOSTILE TRIBES
NORTH-WEST INDIA SERIOUS ENCOUNTER BRITISH FORCE AMBUSHED Delhi, April 10. A communique announces that an encounter on the North-West frontier resulted in six British officers uemg killed and five wounded, and 1M other ranks being killed and da wounded. Followers of the Fakir of Ipi attacked a convoy of lorries and armoured cars in a narrow gorge between Manzai and Wana. The tribesmen’s rifle fire brought down a bombing aeroplane, but the occupants were not injured.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12298, 12 April 1937, Page 3
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