MOHMAND CAMPAIGN
FDRTBER PUNISHMENT. THE AMEER'S ASSURANCES. : . "STRINGENT ORDERS." BY TEIiEGKAPn—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPT2ITOHT. (Rec. May 11, 10 p.m.) / London, May 11. Renter's Simla correspondent states that tho Ameer has assured the Indian Government that he has issued stringent orders recalling the Afghaus who crossed the frontier, and has directed his officials to prevent Afghans giving assistance to tho tribesmen .against the British. . SUMMONS IGNORED. Calcutta, May 10. General Willeocks, with two brigades, has received orders to. proceed against tho Mohmajids, who failed to obey the summons to attend. , With the withdrawal of tlio Afghans and the Ameer's assurances, the Mohmands—who a few days ago were announced to havo rolapsed into a position of; secondary importance—again fill the front of the picture. One of the grievances of the Mohmands appears to be the construction by the British of a strategic railway on the Peshawar-Jamrud line., through Mohmand territory. A Mohmand jirgah, or deputation of. headmen, waited on tho Ameer at Kabul, and- it is said that the Ameer told them that the railway would not interfere with thein. and that the building of it was within the; British Government's .rights. ' .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 7
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189MOHMAND CAMPAIGN Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 7
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